Practice Questions on Numerical Logic

Q.1If the input is given as “655, 436, 764, 799, 977, 572, 333”, which of the following step will be “333, 436, 572, 655, 977, 764, 799”?

✔ A.Step Third

B.Step Second

C.Step Fourth

D.None of the above

Q2.How many steps will be required to get the final output from the following input?

Input: 544, 653, 325, 688, 461, 231, 857

A.6

✔ B.5

C.4

D.None of the above

Q3.Step third for an input is “432, 433, 542, 666, 734, 355, 574” What will be the first step for the input?

A.666, 542, 432, 734, 433, 574, 355

B.542, 666, 734, 432, 433, 574, 355

C.355, 574, 433, 432, 734, 666, 542

✔ D.Cannot be determined

 
Q4.On her walk through the park, Hansa collected 50 coloured leaves, all either maple or oak. She sorted them by category when she got home, and found the following:

The number of red oak leaves with spots is even and positive.
The number of red oak leaves without any spot equals the number of red maple leaves without spots.
All non-red oak leaves have spots, and there are five times as many of them as there are red spotted oak leaves.
There are no spotted maple leaves that are not red.
There are exactly 6 red spotted maple leaves.
There are exactly 22 maple leaves that are neither spotted nor red.
How many oak leaves did she collect?

A.25

B.22

C.18

✔ D.17

Q5.There are 9 coins, out of which one is odd, i.e. its weight is either less or more than that of the other 8 coins. How many iterations of weighing using a pan balance are required to find the odd coin and to find whether it is heavier or lighter?

A.2

✔ B.3

C.4

D.5

Q6.On a “boom” day the price of XYZ Ltd. keeps rising throughout the day and peaks at the close of the day. Which trader got the minimum return on that day?

✔ A. Bikram

B. Chetan

C. Abdul

D. Abdul or Chetan

E. Cannot be determined

Q7.On a day of fluctuating market prices, the share price of XYZ Ltd. ends with a gain, i.e., it is higher at the close of the day compared to the opening value.

Which trader got the maximum return on that day?

A. Bikram

B. Chetan

C. Abdul

D. Bikram or Chetan

✔ E. Cannot be determined

Q8.Which one of the following statements is always true?

A. Abdul will not be the one with the minimum return

B. Return for Chetan will be higher than that of Bikram

C. Return for Bikram will be higher than that of Chetan

D. Return for Chetan cannot be higher than that of Abdul

✔ E. None of the above

Q9. One day, two other traders, Dane and Emily joined Abdul, Bikram and Chetan for trading in the shares of XYZ Ltd.

Dane followed a strategy of buying equal numbers of shares at 10 am, 11 am and 12 noon, and selling the same numbers at 1 pm, 2 pm and 3 pm.

Emily, on the other hand, followed the strategy of buying shares using all her money at 10 am and selling all of them at 12 noon and again buying the shares for all the money at 1 pm and again selling all of them at the close of the day at 3 pm.

At the close of the day the following was observed:

Abdul lost money in the transactions.
Both Dane and Emily made profits.
There was an increase in share price during the closing hour compared to the price at 2 pm.
Share price at 12 noon was lower than the opening price.
Which of the following is necessarily false?

✔ A. Share price was at its lowest at 2 pm

B. Share price was at its lowest at 11 am

C. Share price at 1 pm was higher than the share price at 2 pm

D. Share price at 1 pm was higher than the share price at 12 noon

E. None of the above

Q10.Share price was at its highest at:

Note: Use data from the previous question.

✔ A. 10 am

B. 11 am

C. 12 noon

D. 1 pm

E. Cannot be determined