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Logical & Data Interpretation

DIRECTIONS for questions 26 to 30: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The following bar graph gives the details of the number of students who join class XI and pass out of class XII, in a
school, for six years - from 2000 to 2005. After studying for one year in class XI, all students are automatically
promoted to class XII (i.e., no student is detained in class XI). However, the students can successfully complete class
XII and pass out only if they perform satisfactorily in class XII. The pass percentage of any batch which joined (i.e.,
in class XI) during the given period (i.e., from 2000 to 2005), in its scheduled year of passing out (i.e., after exactly
two years of joining) is at least 60% and at most 80%. For example, if 10x students join class XI in 2000, then the
number of students in that batch who pass out in their scheduled year of passing, i.e., in 2002, would be between 6x
and 8x (both included). Further, all students pass class XII within three years of their joining class XI. None of the
students were absent for the exams during the given years. Students are admitted only into class XI.

26. The number of students who joined class XI in 2003 but failed to pass out of class XII in 2005 is
(1) 27
(2) 36
(3) 40
(4) 42
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

27. The pass percentage in the first attempt (i.e., in the scheduled year of passing) was the highest for the students
joining class XI in which of the following years?

(1) 2000
(2) 2001
(3) 2002
(4) 2003
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

28. How many of the students who joined class XI in 2001 passed out of class XII in their first attempt (i.e., in their
scheduled year of passing)?

(1) 48
(2) 52
(3) 59
(4) 60
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

29. Considering years 2004 to 2006, the number of students who passed out of class XII was the highest in

(1) 2004
(2) 2005
(3) 2006
(4) Either 2004 or 2006
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

30. How many of the students who joined class XI in 1999 passed out of class XII in 2002?

(1) 12
(2) 11
(3) 10
(4) 9
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

DIRECITONS for questions 31 to 33: The question given below is followed by two statements, A and B. Study the
information given in the two statements. Assess whether the statements are sufficient to answer the question and
choose the appropriate option among the given choices.

31. Four buses - A, B, C and D - start from P and reach Q, not necessarily in the same order. No two buses start
from P at the same time or reach Q at the same time. Which is the first bus to reach Q?

A. At least two buses started from P before bus B, which, in turn, reached Q just before bus C, which, in turn, is the
first bus to start from P.
B. Buses B and D as well as buses A and B did not meet during the journey from P to Q. Bus A reached Q after bus
D.

(1) The question can be answered from A alone but not from B alone.
(2) The question can be answered from B alone but not from A alone.
(3) The question can be answered from A alone as well as from B alone.
(4) The question can be answered from A and B together but not from any of them alone.
(5) The question cannot be answered even from A and B together.
Solution

32. If Brijesh did not sit at either extreme in the morning, who sat adjacent to Arvind in the afternoon?

A. Arvind shifted by two places to his right from the morning to the afternoon and Brijesh shifted by one place to
his left from the morning to the afternoon.
B. David shifted by two places to his left from the morning to the afternoon and Chandu shifted by one place to his
right from the morning to the afternoon.

(1) The question can be answered from A alone but not from B alone.
(2) The question can be answered from B alone but not from A alone.
(3) The question can be answered from A alone as well as from B alone.
(4) The question can be answered from A and B together but not from any of them alone.
(5) The question cannot be answered even from A and B together.
Solution

33. If in the morning as well as in the afternoon, it was observed that at most one boy sat between Arvind and
Chandu, and Chandu did not sit to the right of Arvind, then what is the order in which they sat in the morning?

A. In the afternoon, Arvind sat to the immediate left of David and Brijesh did not sit adjacent to Chandu.
B. In the afternoon, David sat to the immediate right of Brijesh. In the morning, David sat second from the extreme
right of the row.

(1) The question can be answered from A alone but not from B alone.
(2) The question can be answered from B alone but not from A alone.
(3) The question can be answered from A alone as well as from B alone.
(4) The question can be answered from A and B together but not from any of them alone.
(5) The question cannot be answered even from A and B together.
Solution
DIRECTIONS for questions 34 to 37: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The line graph and the tables below give the details of the performance of three companies - A, B and C - for the
years 1998 to 2003.
34. In how many of the given years is the expenditure on salaries of one or more companies equal to the profit of
the respective company in that year?

(1) 1
(2) 2
(3) 4
(4) 5
(5) 6
Solution

35. In which of the following years is the ratio of the expenditure of company A to that of company B the highest?

(1) 1998
(2) 1999
(3) 2000
(4) 2003
(5) 2001
Solution

36. For how many of the given companies is the ratio of income to expenditure more than 5/4 but less than 3/2 in at
least four of the years given?

(1) 0
(2) 1
(3) 2
(4) 3
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

37. In the year 2003, if the total cost incurred by all the three companies together is considered for each of the five
cost heads, then the expenditure under which of the cost heads is the highest in that year?

(1) Raw materials

(2) Salaries
(3) Power
(4) Transport
(5) Overheads
Solution

DIRECTIONS for questions 38 to 42: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
Four friends - A, B, C and D - live on an island, in which each person belongs to one of the three tribes - Truth
tellers, Alternators and Liars. Truth tellers always tell the truth, alternators alternate between true and false
statements, in any order, and liars always lie. A, B, C and D earn their respective livelihoods as a Snake Charmer, a
Witch doctor, a Lion hunter and a Sooth-Sayer, not necessarily in the same order. When asked about their tribes and
how they earn their livelihoods, each of them made exactly three statements. A made his first and third statements in
the local language, which was incomprehensible, but made his second statement in English. However, B, C and D
made all their statements in English.
A:
Statement 1: Kira karo ki.
Statement 2: At least one of my statements is false.
Statement 3: Rima rama remo.

B:
Statement 1: A's first statement is that, "C is either a Lion hunter or a Witch doctor."
Statement 2: C is not a truth-teller.
Statement 3: A is a Sooth-Sayer.

C:
Statement 1: B is a Witch doctor.
Statement 2: A's third statement is that, "D is a truth-teller".
Statement 3: D is neither a Lion hunter nor a Sooth-Sayer.
D:
Statement 1: C made exactly one true statement.
Statement 2: Exactly two of us are truth-tellers.
Statement 3: C is a Lion hunter.

Among A, B, C and D, at least one person of each tribe is present.

38. Who is/are the liar(s)?

(1) A and B
(2) Only B
(3) Only C
(4) B and D
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

39. Who is the Lion hunter?

(1) A
(2) B
(3) C
(4) D
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution (Your Answer: 4)

40. On the whole, how many false statements were made?

(1) 4
(2) 5
(3) 6
(4) 7
(5) 8
Solution

41. Which of the following groups of persons consists of the persons from all the three tribes?

(1) ABC
(2) ABD
(3) BCD
(4) Cannot be determined
(5) None of these
Solution

42. Who is the Sooth-Sayer?

(1) D
(2) C
(3) B
(4) A
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

DIRECTIONS for questions 43 to 45: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
The following tables give information about the total turnover, the total number of employees and the average
salary of the employees of the top 100 companies in the country.

In each table, the value in any row of the second column denotes the number of companies for which the value of the
parameter mentioned at the top of the first column is less than the corresponding value given in the first column. For
example, the fifth row of Table-I shows that there are 72 companies having turnover of less than Rs.700 crore.

Further, a company, X will always have a more number of employees and a higher average salary than any other
company, Y, if the total turnover of company Y is less than that of X.
43. How many of the given companies have a total turnover of at least Rs.600 crore and the total number of
employees less than 2700, while having an average salary, of the employees, of at least Rs.50,000?

(1) 31
(2) 28
(3) 17
(4) 24
(5) None of these
Solution (Your Answer: 5)

44. How many of the given companies are there for which the turnover is less than Rs.700 crore or the number of
employees is at least 1800 or the average salary, of the employees, is less than Rs.100,000?

(1) 100
(2) 96
(3) 94
(4) 15
(5) None of these
Solution

45. For how many of the given companies, is the average salary, of the employees, less than Rs.80,000 and the total
number of employees is at least 900?

(1) 53
(2) 36
(3) 42
(4) 41
(5) 45
Solution

DIRECTIONS for questions 46 to 50: Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.

The table above shows the relationship between two series of numbers (α-series and β-series). 13 numbers, from A
through M, belong to the α-series, while 13 numbers, from N through Z, belong to the β-series. Each of the α-series
numbers is compared with each of the β-series numbers using the set of symbols {<, ≤, >, ≥, =, ≠ }, where the symbols
have their usual mathematical interpretation.

The comparison is done such that, on the left hand side of the symbol in any cell, the α-series number from the
corresponding row is written and on the right hand side of that symbol, the β-series number from the corresponding
column is written. For example, A < R, D > S and so on.

46. How many numbers of the β-series are greater than Z?

(1) 2
(2) 5
(3) 10
(4) 12
(5) 9
Solution (Your Answer: 3)

47. How many numbers of the α-series are smaller than G?

(1) 1
(2) 2
(3) 3
(4) 4
(5) None of these
Solution (Your Answer: 5)

48. How many numbers of the α-series are less than J and definitely greater than W?

(1) 0
(2) 1
(3) 3
(4) 4
(5) 2
Solution (Your Answer: 3)

49. How many numbers of the β-series are equal to at least one other number of the same series?

(1) 3
(2) 5
(3) 6
(4) 4
(5) None of these
Solution (Your Answer: 2)

50. Let all the 26 numbers belonging to either series be ranked from 1 onwards in the ascending order of values,
such that the numbers with equal values share the same rank. Which of the following represents the number of α-
series numbers and the number of β-series numbers that have a rank of two or more than two, respectively?

(1) 12, 13
(2) 13, 12
(3) 12, 12
(4) 11, 11
(5) Cannot be determined
Solution

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