ASSIGNMENT: Complex puzzles

Direction:
i. Five girls- Seema, Reema, Neeta, Mona and Veena have total five tickets of movie theatres- Priya,
Chanakya, M2K, PVR Saket, Satyam where movies - Gangster, Khiladi, Hero, Saalaam Namaste and Iqbal
are currently playing. Each girl has one movie ticket of one of the five theatres.
ii. Movie Gangster is running in Priya theatre whose ticket is not with Veena and Seema.
iii. Mona has ticket of Iqbal movie.
iv. Neeta has ticket for the M2K theatre. Veena has the ticket of Satyam theatre where Khiladi is not
running.
v. In PVR Saket theatre Saalaam Namaste is running.

Question: Which is the correct combination of the Theatre – Girl – Movie?

A. M2K – Neeta – Hero B. Priya – Mona – Gangster
C. Satyam – Veena – Iqbal D. PVR Saket – Seema – Saalaam Namaste

Question: Which movie is running at Chanakya?

A. Gangster B. Iqbal C. Hero D. Data inadequate

Question: Who is having the ticket of the movie Hero?

A. Reema B. Veena C. Seema D. Mona

Direction: Answer the questions based on following information.

In an institute there are five identical rooms having different items in it. Every identical looking room has a
name indicating its contents. The details of the contents and the name of each room are as given below.
One day somebody in the institute changed the name plate of every room such that no room contains the
name correctly explaining its contents.

Question: If supervisor of the institute opened a room named Biswachakra and found that one item was a
bag. Which of the following would definitely be correct?
A. the other item will be a bag
B. the other item will not be a bag
C. the other room named Bagbahadur will contain a bag
D. the other item is a computer

Question: If it is known that room named Purnachandra does not contain either any printer or any
computer, the room named Pashupatti does not contain any printer and room named Chandrachud
contains one computer and one bag, which of the following will definitely be true if only one of the
remaining rooms is opened?
A. It will have at least one computer and printer
B. It will have two printers
C. It will have at least one computer
D. lt will have at least one printer

Direction: Mr. Mansingh has five sons – Arun, Mahi, Rohit, Nilesh and Saurav, and three daughters –
Tamanna, Kuntala and Janaki. Three sons of Mr. Mansingh were born first followed by two daughters.
Saurav is the eldest child and Janki is the youngest. Three of the children are studying at Trinity School and
three are studying at St. Stefan. Tamanna and Rohit study at St. Stefan school. Kuntala, the eldest
daughter, plays chess. Mansorover school offers cricket only, while Trinity school offers chess. Beside,
these schools offer no other games. The children who are at Mansorover school have been born in
succession. Mahi and Nilesh are cricketers while Arun plays football. Rohit who was born just before Janki,
plays hockey.

Question: Arun is the _________ child of Mr. Mansingh.

A. 2nd B. 3rd C. 6th D. 5th

Question: Saurav is a student of which school?

A. Trinity B. St. Stefan C. Mansorover D. Cannot be determined
Question: What game does Tamanna play?
A. Cricket B. Hockey C. Football D. Cannot be determined

Question: Which of the following pairs was not born in succession (ignore the order)?
A. Mahi and Nilesh B. Kuntala and Arun
C. Rohit and Janki D. Arun and Rohit

Direction: Five women decided to go for shopping to South Extension, New Delhi. They arrived at the
designated meeting place in the following order: 1. Aradhana, 2. Chandrima, 3. Deepika, 4. Heena and 5.
Sumitra. Each of them spent at least Rs. 1000. The woman who spent Rs. 2234 arrived before the woman
who spent Rs. 1193. One of them spent Rs. 1340 and she was not Deepika. One woman spent Rs. 1378
more than Chandrima. One of them spent Rs. 2517 and she was not Aradhana. Heena spent more than
Deepika. Sumitra spent the largest amount and Chandrima the smallest.

Question: What was the amount spent by Heena?

A. Rs. 1193 B. Rs. 1340 C. Rs. 2234 D. Rs. 2517

Question: Which of the following amount is spent by one of the women?

A. Rs. 1139 B. Rs. 1378 C. Rs. 2571 D. Rs. 2518

Question: The lady who spent Rs. 1193 is:

A. Aradhana B. Chandrima C. Deepika D. Heena

Direction: Read the following information and choose the right alternative in the questions that follow.
During the cultural week of an institute six competitions were conducted. The cultural week was
inaugurated in the morning of 19th October, Wednesday and continued till 26th October. In the span of 8
days six competitions namely debate, folk dance, fash-p, street play, rock band, and group song, were
organized along with various other cultural programs. The information available from the institute is:
i. Only one competition was held in a day
ii. Rock band competition was not conducted on the closing day.
iii. Fash-p was conducted on the day prior to debate competition
iv. Group song competition was conducted neither on Wednesday nor on Saturday
v. None of the competition was conducted on Thursday and Sunday
vi. Street Play competition was held on Monday
vii. There was gap of two days between debate competition and group song competition

Question: The cultural week started with which competition?

(1) Fash-p competition (2) Debate competition (3) Street play competition (4) Rock band
competition

Question: How many days gap is there between rock band competition and group song competition?
(1) Two (2) Three (3) Four (4) Five

Question: Which pair of competition was conducted on Wednesday?

(1) Rock band competition and debate competition (2) Debate competition and fash-p competition
(3) Rock band competition and Folk dance competition (4) None of these

Question: Which competition exactly precedes the street play competition?

(1) Rock band competition (2) Group song competition (3) Debate competition (4) Fash-p competition

Question: Fash-p competition follows which competition?

(1) Debate competition (2) Street play competition (3) Rock band competition (4) None of
these

Direction: Read the information given below and answer the next five questions that follow :
i. Six friends Rahul, Kabeer, Anup, Raghu, Amit and Alok were engineering graduates. All six of them were
placed in six different companies and were posted in six different locations, namely Tisco- Jamshedpur,
Telco-Pune, Wipro-Bangalore, HCLNoida, Mecon-Ranchi and Usha Martin-Kolkata. Each of them has their
personal e-mail id’s with different email providers i.e., Gmail, Indiatimes, Rediffmail, Yahoo, Hotmail,
Sancharnet, though not necessarily in the same order.
ii. The one having e-mail account with Sancharnet works in Noida and the one having an e-mail account
with Indiatimes works for Tisco.
iii. Amit does not stay in Bangalore and does not work for Mecon, the one who works for Mecon has an e-
mail id with Gmail.
iv. Rahul has an e-mail id with Rediffmail and works at Pune.
v. Alok does not work for Mecon and the one who works for Wipro does not have an e-mail account with
Yahoo.
vi. Kabeer is posted in Kolkata, and does not have an account with Hotmail.
vii. Neither Alok nor Raghu work in Noida.
viii. The one who is posted in Ranchi has an e-mail id which is not an account of Rediffmail or Hotmail.
ix. Anup is posted in Jamshedpur.

Questions: The man who works in Wipro has a e-mail account with?
(1) Sancharnet (2) Yahoo (3) Rediffmail (4) None of these

Question: Which of the following e-mail-place of posting person combination is correct?

(1) Kabeer-Kolkata-Rediffmail (2) Alok-Bangalore-Indiatimes (3) Amit-Noida-Yahoo (4) Raghu-Ranchi-
Gmail

Question: Which of the following is true?

(1) Amit is posted at Ranchi (2) Raghu is posted at Jamshedpur (3) Kabeer has an e-mail id with Yahoo
(4) Rahul has an e-mail id with Indiatimes

Question: Which of the following sequences of location represent Alok, Kabeer, Anup, Rahul, Raghu, and
Amit in the same order?
(1) Bangalore, Noida, Pune, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Kolkata
(2) Bangalore, Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Pune, Noida, Ranchi
(3) Kolkata, Bangalore, Jamshedpur, Pune, Noida, Ranchi
(4) None of these

Question: People who have e-mail account with Indiatimes, Sancharnet and Yahoo work for which
companies, in the same sequence as the e-mail accounts mentioned?
(1) Usha Martin, HCL, Wipro
(2) Tisco, Wipro, Usha Martin
(3) HCL, Tisco, Wipro
(4) Tisco, HCL, Usha Martin
Direction: Read the following passage and solve the questions based on it.

a. Six Indian professors from six different institutions (Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Uranus)
went to China to attend an international conference on “Sustainability and Innovation in Management: A
Global Scenario” and they stayed in six successive rooms on the second floor of a hotel (201 _ 206).
b. Each of them has published papers in a number of journals and has donated to a number of institutions
last year.
c. The professor in room no. 202 has published in twice as many journals as the professor who donated to
8 institutions last year.
d. The professor from Uranus and the Professor in room number 206 together published in a total of 40
journals.
e. The professor from Jupiter published in 8 journals less than the professor from Pluto but donated to 10
more institutions last year.
f. Four times the number of 4 journal publications by the professor in room number 204 is lesser than the
number of institutions to which he donated last year.
g. The professor in room number 203 published in 12 journals and donated to 8 institutions last year.
h. The professor who published in 16 journals donated to 24 institutions last year.
i. The professor in room number 205 published in 8 journals and donated to 2 institutions less than the
professor from Mercury last year. The Mercury professor is staying in an odd numbered room.
j. The Mars professor is staying two rooms ahead of Pluto professor who is staying two rooms ahead of the
Mercury professor in ascending order of room numbers.
k. The professors from Mercury and Jupiter do not stay in room number 206.

Question: How many institutions did the Jupiter professor donate to last year?
(1) 8 (2) 3 (3) 18 (4) 24

Question: In which room is the Mars professor staying?

(1) Room number 201 (2) Room number 203 (3) Room number 205 (4) None of the above

Question: The professor of which institute is staying in room number 206?

(1) Jupiter (2) Uranus (3) Mercury (4) Neptune

Question: The professor of which institute donated to 24 institutions last year?

 (1) Jupiter (2) Uranus (3) Mercury (4) Neptune

Question: In how many journals did the Jupiter professor publish?

(1) 8 (2) 4 (3) 12 (4) 20

Direction: Read the following passage and solve the questions based on it.
Taking note of the day-long heavy queue in front of the Tarangabad Transport Department office everyday
for obtaining transport permits, the City Administration comes out with a ‘Single Office-Five Windows’
system for facilitating the process. For simplicity, the windows are named as W1, W2, W3, W4 and W5
respectively. Office hours are from 8:00 AM to 5:30 PM, barring Saturday, when the office closes by 2.30
PM. To streamline the rush and reduce pressure on the employees, the working hours of the aforesaid
windows are defined in the following manner:
• W1 is open between 9.30 AM and 2.30 PM on Monday and Wednesday, between 8.00 AM and
11.30 AM on Tuesday and Thursday and between 3.00 PM and 5.00 PM on Friday.
• W2 is open between 8.30 AM and 11.30 AM on Wednesday and Thursday, between 8.00 AM and
10.00 AM on Friday, and between 12.30 PM and 2.30 PM on Monday and Saturday.
• W3 is open between 10.00 AM and 12.30 PM on Wednesday and Saturday, between 10.00 AM and
12.00 Noon on Friday, and between 3.30 PM and 5.30 PM on Monday and Thursday.
• W4 is open between 11.30 AM and 3.00 PM on Tuesday, between 12.30 PM and 3.00 PM on
Thursday and Friday, between 8 AM and 10 AM on Saturday and Monday and between 3.30 PM to
5.30 PM on Wednesday.
• W5 is open between 2.00 PM and 4.00 PM on Monday, 3.30 PM and 5.30 PM on Tuesday and
Friday, between 8 AM and 10 AM on Wednesday and between 10.30 AM to 12.30 PM on Thursday.

Question: On which of the following days, maximum number of windows is simultaneously open at 9.45
AM?

(1) Monday (2) Wednesday (3) Thursday (4) Friday

Question: On which of the following days, not more than one window is open simultaneously at any given
time during office hours?
(1) Monday (2) Wednesday (3) Friday (4) Saturday

Question: All windows of the transport permit office are closed for 1 hour during the office hours on which
of the following days?
 (1) Wednesday (2) Monday (3) Tuesday (4) Thursday

Direction: On the basis of the information provided, answer the questions below.
A, B, C, E, F, G and H are 7 employees in an organisation working in different departments of
Administration, Finance and Logistics. There are at least two employees in each department. Out of these
7, 3 are females and one is in each department. Each employee gets a different salary. F works in
Administration and his only other colleague G earns the maximum. C, the least earner works in Finance. B
and E are brothers and are not in the same department. A, husband of H, works in Finance and earns more
than F, B and E. The wife in the couple earns more than the husband.

Question: In which of the department, does a group of 3 work?

(1) Logistics (2) Logistics or Administration (3) Administration or Finance
(4) Finance or Logistics

Question: . Which of the following statement is true?

(1) B earns less than A and H (2) B earns less than F and H
(3) F earns more than B and E (4) B earns more than E and C

Question: In descending order of income, H is at which position?

(1) 2 (2) 3 (3) 5 (4) 1