Reasoning Questions With Solution

1. In a chess tournament each of six players will play every other player exactly once. How many matches will be played during the tournament ?

A. 12

B. 15

C. 30

D. 36

2. A, B, C and D play a game of cards. A says to B. "If I give you 8 cards, you will have as many as C has and I shall have 3 less than what C has. Also if I take 8 cards from C, I shall have twice as many as D has." If B and D together have 50 cards, how many cards have A got?

A. 35

B. 37

C. 38

D. 40

3. Reena is twice as old as Sunita. Three years ago, she was three times as old as Sunita. How old is Reena now ?

A. 6 years

B. 12 years

C. 14 years

D. 16 years

4. A shepherd had 27 sheep. All but 10 died. How many he left with ?

A. 10

B. 15

C. 17

D. 27

5. A group of 1200 persons consisting of captains and soldiers is travelling in a train. For every 15 soldiers there is one captain. The number of captains in the group is ?

A. 70

B. 75

C. 80

D. 85

6. Aruna cut a cake into two halves and cuts one half into smaller pieces of equal size. Each of the small pieces is twenty grams in weight. If she has seven pieces of the cake in all with her, how heavy was the original cake ?

A. 240 gm

B. 220 gm

C. 225 gm

D. 250 gm

7. First bunch of bananas has (1/4) again as many bananas as a second bunch. If the second bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch, then the number of bananas in the first bunch are

A. 9

B. 10

C. 12

D. 15

8. At the end of a business conference the ten people present all shake hands with each other once. How many handshakes will there be altogether ?

A. 20

B. 45

C. 55

D. 90

9. A student got twice as many sums wrong as he got right. If he attempted 48 sums in all, how many did he solve correctly ?

A. 12

B. 16

C. 24

D. 18

10. The number of boys in a class is three times the number of girls. Which one of the following numbers cannot represent the total number of children in the class ?

A. 48

B. 44

C. 42

D. 40