3100+ Mental Ability Reasoning Questions and Answers with Explanation

Q:

A is sister of B who is mother of C who is mother of D. E is the grand mother of D. Then how C is related to E ?

A) Sister	B) Daughter
C) Mother	D) Daughter-in-law

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Daughter-in-law

Explanation:

GM GM
A ---- B ---- E
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D (Grand son or daughter)

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Q:

Can you find the next number in the sequence "0, 1, 4, 7, 8, 5, 2, 3, 6, 9, 9, 6, 3, 2, 5, 8, 7, 4, 1, 0, 0, …" ?

A) 0	B) 1
C) 4	D) 7

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) 1

Explanation:

The pattern follows the palindrome sequence.

Here the digits 0 1 4 7 8 5 8 3 6 9 9 6 3 8 5 8 7 4 1 0 0 1 4 7 ...

So the next digit in the sequence is 1.

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Q:

A is father of X; B is mother of Y. The sister of X and Z is Y. which of the following statements is definitely not true?

A) B is the Mother of Z	B) X is the Sister of Z
C) Y is the Son of A	D) B is the Wife of A

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Y is the Son of A

Explanation:

A is the father of X and Y is the sister of X. So, Y is the daughter of A.

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Q:

Find the correct sentence from the following options ?

A) The dacoits having stopped to divide the booty, the police had overtaken them	B) The dacoits being stopped to divide the booty, the police overtook them.
C) The dacoits having been stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them	D) The dacoits having stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) The dacoits having stopped for dividing the booty, the police overtook them

Explanation:

As it is the past continuous sentence.

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Q:

Which of the following means O is a father of two children ?

A) O @ M # N	B) O # N # M
C) O @ N # M	D) N # O $ M

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) O @ N # M

Explanation:

O @ N # M means O is the father of N who is the sister of M i.e. O is a father of two children.

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Q:

"Compounding frequency" refers to

A) What type of interest your account earns	B) How often your interest is calculated and added back into your account
C) What interest rate you can expect from your account	D) How easily you can add money into your account

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) How often your interest is calculated and added back into your account

Explanation:

Compounding frequency :

The time periods when interest will be calculated on top of the original loan amount (or) The number of compounding periods in one year.

The greater the compounding frequency, the more often your interest is calculated and added back into your account.

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Q:

Choose the pair in which the words are differently related?

A) Lizard : Pad	B) Short : Long
C) Poor : Rich	D) Light : Heavy

Answer & Explanation Answer: A) Lizard : Pad

Explanation:

In all other pairs, the two words are antonyms of each other

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Q:

Which of the following interchanges in signs will make the given equation correct?
17- 15 x 5 = 250

A) = and x	B) + and -
C) = and -	D) x and -

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