199+ Verbal Reasoning - Logical Deduction Questions and Answers With Explanation

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Mr. A, Miss B, Mr. C and Miss D are sitting around a table and discussing their trades.

1. Mr. A sits opposite to cook
2. Miss b sits right to the barber.
3. The washer man is on the left of the tailor
4. Miss D sits opposite Mr. C

What are the trades of A and B ?

A) Tailor and Barber	B) Tailor and cook
C) Barber and cook	D) washer man and cook

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Tailor and cook

Explanation:

Clealry, C and D sit opposite to each other. So, if A sits opposite to cook, B shall be the cook.
Now, B is to the right of barber. So, one of the rest, say C will be barber.
Clealry, then D on the opposite side shall be washerman or tailor. But, washerman is left of tailor and D on the left of A.
So, D is washerman and A is tailor.

Thus, A and B are Tailor and Cook.

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Retired persons should not be appointed for the posts in organisations

Assumptions:

1. Retried persons may lack zeal and commitment to carry out executive's work

2. Retried persons do not take intrest in the work and welfare of new organisations

A) Only 1 is true	B) Only 2 is true
C) Either 1 or 2 is true	D) Neither 1 or 2 is true

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Neither 1 or 2 is true

Explanation:

Since both 1 and 2 does not follow from the statement,so neither of them is implicit

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Read the statements and select a conclusion from the given alternatives.

Statement : Some mats are brooms. All the pencils are brooms.

Conclusion :

I. Some brooms are pearls.

II. Some brooms are mats.

A) Only I conclusion follows	B) Only II conclusion follows
C) Either I or II follows	D) Neither I nor II follows

Answer & Explanation Answer: B) Only II conclusion follows

Explanation:

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"If it does not rain throughout this month ,most farmers would be in trouble this year"

Assumptions:

1. Timely rain is essential for farming

2. Most farmers are generally dependent on rains

A) Only 1 is true	B) Only 2 is true
C) Either 1 or 2 is true	D) Both 1 and 2 follow

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Both 1 and 2 follow

Explanation:

It is mentioned that farmers will be in troble without rain .This means that timely rain is essential.Also,it shows that farmers are dependent on rain.So,both 1 and 2 are true

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Read the following statements and answer the question given below.

U.S. fraternity and sorority members who drink heavily while in school don’t tend to drink after graduation, according to a recent study in Psychology of Addictive Behaviours.

Which of the following would be a logical extension of the above passage?

A) Most men come out of a drinking binge after they cross thirty.	B) With graduation comes a sense of responsibility which makes students abstain from such vices.
C) Drinking begins as a group activity and as students leave these groups, the habit of drinking is also left behind.	D) Drinking heavily during college days make most students realize the harmful effects of alcoholic drinks.

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Drinking begins as a group activity and as students leave these groups, the habit of drinking is also left behind.

Explanation:

The passage only provides the information that students drink in school but seem to stop binging after they graduate. Option [A] is incorrect as there is no mention in the passage that students
are only males and that they graduate at thirty. Options [B] and [D] are incorrect because it is not mentioned so in the passage. Since the passage talks about student groups - 'fraternity and sorority members' - a logical extension would be that it is these groups that prod students to begin drinking and with the breaking of these groups, the habit is also broken. Hence, [C].

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Read the statements and select a conclusion from the given alternatives.

Statements :

All Apples are leaves. Some leaves are lemons. No lemon is house.

Conclusions :

I. Some houses are Apples
II. Some lemons are Apples
III. No house is Apple

A) Only I follows	B) Only II follows
C) Both II & III follows	D) Either I or III follows

Answer & Explanation Answer: C) Both II & III follows

Explanation:

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Take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts.

Statements :

A : All mothers are aunts.
B : All aunts are ladies.

Conclusions:

1. All ladies are mothers.
2. All ladies are aunts.

A) Only conclusion 1 follows	B) Only conclusion 2 follows
C) Both conclusion 1 and 2 follows	D) Neither conclusion 1 nor 2 follows

Answer & Explanation Answer: D) Neither conclusion 1 nor 2 follows

Explanation:

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Statements followed by some conclusions are given below.

Statements :
1. Tea is green, Coffee is brown and Milk is white.
2. More than half of the town likes tea.
3. People who like white don't like green and some people who like brown don't like white.

Conclusions :
1. Green is more popular in the town.
2. There is at least one coffee drinker who does not like tea.

Find which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements.

A) Only conclusion 1 follows	B) Only conclusion 2 follows
C) Both 1 and 2 follow	D) Neither 1 nor 2 follows

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