Reasoning Questions for Bank P.O Exams

Directions: In each of the following questions, one term is different. Find out the different term.
1. (a) 7
(b) 15
(c) 27
(d) 63
(e) 3
Ans. (c)
2. (a) 11
(b) 12
(c) 17
(d) 15
(e) 9
Ans. (b)
3. (a) 4
(b) 32
(c) 64
(d) 16
(e) 96
Ans. (e)
4. (a) 10
(b) 21
(c) 129
(d) 256
(e) 24
Ans. (d)


Directions: In each of the following letter series, some of the letters are missing which are given in that order as one of the alternative below it. Choose the correct alternative.
5. c – bba – cab – ac – ab – ac
(a) abcbc
(b) acbab
(c) babcc
(d) bcacb
Ans. (b)
6. ab – bc – c – ba – c
(a) baac
(b) aabb
(c) abbb
(d) baba
Ans. (c)
7. A householder employed a servant on the condition that food and lodging will be free and after the service of one year he will get Rs 900 and a uniform as bonus. The servant left the job after serving for 9 months and accordingly the householder gave him Rs 650 and a uniform. Find the price of the uniform.
(a) Rs 250
(b) Rs 200
(c) Rs 175
(d) Rs 100
(e) none of these
Ans. (d)
8. 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) 36
(b) 30
(c) 15
(d) 12
Ans. (c)
9. 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
Ans. (c)
10. If P denotes ÷, Q denotes ×, R denotes + and S denotes -, then the value of 18Q 12P 4 R 5 S 6 when simplified gives
(a) 36
(b) 53
(c) 59
(d) 65
(e) 51
Ans. (b)
11. If × means +, ÷ means -, – means × and + means ÷, then 8 × 7- 8 + 40 + 2 = ?
(a) 1
(b) 7 2/5
(c) 83/5
(d) 44
Ans. (b)
12. 8. If A means -‘B means ÷, C means + and D means ×, then l5 B 3 C 24 A l2 D 2 =?
(a) 34
(b) 2
(c) 5/9
(d) 5
Ans. (d)
13. If – means ÷, + means ?, ÷ means -, ? means +, then which of the following equations is correct?
(a) 52 ÷ 4 + 5 ? 8 – 2 = 36
(b) 43 ? 7 ÷ 5 + 4 – 8 = 25
(c) 36 ? 4 – 12 + 5 ÷ 3 = 420
(d) 36 – 12 ? 6 ÷ 3 + 4 = 60
Ans. (a)
14. If 9 ? 3 = 36;
11 ? 7 = 81, then what is the value of 5 ? 13?
(a) 65
(b) 66
(c) 81
(d) 51
(e) 72
Ans. (c)
15. If 7 * 3 = 52; 9 * 5 = 86; 3 * 4 = 13, then 5 * 7 = ?
(a) 30
(b) 32
(c) 40
(d) 57
(e) 42
Ans. (b)
16. If 3 + 5 = 16; 7 + 9 = 64; 10 +12 = 121, then 11 + 3 = ?
(a) 56
(b) 48
(c) 49
(d) 196
(e) 94
Ans. (c)
17. If 4 ? 8 = 42; 6 ? 4 = 23; 8 ? 6 = 34, then 2 ? 4 = ?
(a) 25
(b) 21
(c) 26
(d) 42
(e) 24
Ans. (b)
18. How many even numbers are there in the following sequence of numbers which are immediately followed by an odd number as well as immediately preceded by an even number?
8 6 7 6 8 9 3 2 7 5 3 4 2 2 3 5 5 2 2 8 1 1 9
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Six
Ans. (c)
19. How many numbers from 1 to 100 are there such that these are not only exactly divisible by 4 but also have 4 as a digit?
(a) 7
(b) 10
(c) 20
(d) 21
Ans. (a)
20. If the first and second digits in the sequence
5 9 8 1 3 2 7 4 3 8
are interchanged, also the third and fourth digits, the fifth and sixth digits and soon, which digit would be the seventh counting to your left?
(a) 1
(b) 4
(c) 7
(d) 8
Ans. (d)
21. Raman is 7 ranks ahead of Suman in a class of 39. If Suman’s rank is seventeenth from the last, what is Raman’s rank from the start?
(a) 14th
(b) 15th
(c) l6th
(d) 17th
Ans. (c)
22. Some girls are sitting in a row. Anita is sitting fourteenth from the left and Rekha is seventh from the right. If there are four girls between Anita and Rekha, how many girls are there in the row?
(a) 25
(b) 23
(c) 21
(d) 19
Ans. (a)
23. In a row of students, Deepak is seventh from the left and Madhu is twelfth from the right. If they interchange their positions, Deepak becomes twenty-second from the left. How many students are there in the row?
(a) 19
(b) 31
(c) 33
(d) Can’t be found
Ans. (c)
24. If Thursday was the day after the day before yesterday five days ago, what is the least number of days ago when Sunday was three days before the day after tomorrow?
(a) Two
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Five
Ans. (a)
25. Standing on the platform, Amit told Sunita that Aligarh was more that 10 4m but less than 15 km from there. Sunita knew that it was more than 12 km but less than 14 km from there. If both of them were correct, which of the following could be the distance of Aligarh from the platform?
(a) 11km
(b) 12km
(c) 13km
(d) 14km
Ans. (c)

BANK PO - SAMPLE PAPER

1. A clock shows the time as 6 a.m. If the minute hand gains 2 minutes every hour, how many minutes will the clock gain by 9 p.m.?

(a) 30 minutes

(b) 25 minutes

(c) 28 minutes

(d) 34 minutes

2. Find the right number, from the given options, at the place marked by the question mark: 2, 4, 8, 32, 256, ?

(a) 4096

(b) 8192

(c) 512

(d) 1024

3. Find the number missing at question mark:

10, 11, 23, 39, 64, ?, 149

(a) 100

(b) 103

(c) 78

(d) 128

4. A super fast bus of KSRTC starting from ‘Trivandrum’ and reaches ‘Attingal’ in 45 minutes with an average speed of 40 km/hr. If the speed is increased by 10 km/hr how much time it will take to cover the same distance?

(a) 34 minutes (b) 36 minutes (c) 38 minutes (d) 40 minutes

5. The difference between 6 times and 8 times of a figure is 14. What is the figure?

(a) 12 (b) 9 (c) 7 (d) 6

6. If 92y = 36 what is 9y?

(a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 9 (d) 18

7. One fourth percent of 180 is:

(a) 4.5 (b) 0.45 (c) 0.045 (d) 45

8. A candidate appearing for an examination has to secure 40% marks to pass paper I. But he secured only 40 marks and failed by 20 marks. What is the maximum mark for paper I?

(a) 100 (b) 200 (c) 180 (d) 150

9. Find the missing number 32, 52, 74, 112, 135 ……………

(a) 16 (b) 15 (c) 17 (d) 14

10. If 250 is increased to 300, what is the percentage increase?

(a) 16.67 (b) 20 (c) 23 (d) 17

11. The ratio of 9 seconds to 10 hours is ………….

(a) 1:40 (b) 1:4000 (c) 9:10 (d) 1:400

12. A person lost 10% when he sold goods at Rs.153. For how much should he sell them to gain 20%?

(a) 204 (b) 250 (c) 240 (d) 210

13. What will be xy if 7862xy is to be divisible by 125?

(a) 25 (b) 00 (c) 75 (d) 50

14. A train of 100 meters long is running at the speed of 36 km per hour. In what time it passes a bridge of 80 meters long?

(a) 30 seconds (b) 36 seconds (c) 20 seconds (d) 18 seconds

15. If two-third of a bucket is filled in one minute then the time taken to fill the bucket completely will be …….

(a) 90 seconds (b) 70 seconds (c) 60 seconds (d) 100 seconds

16. If a quarter kilogram costs Rs. 60 then how much will cost for 150 grams?

(a) Rs. 30 (b) Rs. 24 (c) Rs. 36 (d) Rs. 40

17. If 3 men or 6 boys can do a piece of work in 20 days then how many days with 6 men and 8 boys take to do the same work?

(a) 5 (b) 8 (c) 10 (d) 6

18. Find the sum of first 100 natural numbers

(a) 5050 (b) 5005 (c) 9900 (d) 9050

19. Two poles of height 6 meters and 11 meters stand on a plane ground. If the distance between their feet is 12 meters then find the difference in the distance between their tops:

(a) 12m (b) 5m (c) 13m (d) 11m

20. How many balls of radius 4 cm can be made from a solid sphere of lead of radius 8 cm?

(a) 4 (b) 8 (c) 16 (d) 2

21. The solution to x2 +6x+9 = 0 is ……..

(a) x1 = + 3, x2 = -3 (b) x1 = 3, x2 = 3

(c) x1 = -3, x2 = -3 (d) No solution

22. What is the chance of getting a 2 or 4 in rolling a die?

(a) 2/3 (b) 1/6 (c) 1/3 (d) 1/2

23. At what rate of simple interest per annum an amount will be doubled in 10 years?

(a) 10% (b) 7.5% (c) 16% (d) 15%

24. Five times an unknown number is 5 less than 50. The unknown number

(a) 10 (b) 11 (c) 9 (d) 5

25. The acute angle between the hour hand and minute hand of a clock at 4 PM

(a) 900 (b) 1200 (c) 1500 (d) 2400

26. Water is filled in a cylindrical vessel in such a way that its volume doubles after every five minutes. If it takes 30 minutes for the vessel to be full, then the vessel will be one fourth full in

(a) 20 minute (b) 25 minutes

(c) 7 minutes 30 seconds (d) 10 minutes

27. If 10 cats can kill 10 rats in 10 minutes how long will it take 100 cats to kill 100 rats

(a) 1 minutes (b) 10 minute (c) 100 minutes (d) 10000 minutes

28. If 75 % of a number is added to 75, the result is the number itself, then the number is:

(a) 250 (b) 750 (c) 400 (d) 300

29. A school has enough food for 400 children for 12 days. How long will the food last if 80 more children join them?

(a) 6 days (b) 7 days (c) 10 days (d) 8 days

30. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 55, which is the largest number?

(a) 25 (b) 28 (c) 26 (d) 27

31. When a shop keeper sold 2/3 of an item, he got the cost price of the whole lot. What is the percentage of his profit?

(a) 33 1/8 % (b) 66 2/3 % (c) 25 % (d) 50 %

32. The perimeter of a rectangular field is 480 meters and the ratio between the length and breadth is 5:3. The area of the field is:

(a) 7,200m2 (b) 15,000m2 (c) 54,000m2 (d) 13,500m2

33. If you add 100 to a certain number, the result will be more than, if you multiply that number by 1000 what is that number?

(a) 1.5 (b) 1.0 (c) 2.5 (d) 2.0

34. A student has to secure 40 % marks to pass. He gets 150 marks and fails by 30 marks. What is the maximum marks?

(a) 400 (b) 500 (c) 475 (d) 450

35. The circumcentre of an obtuse triangle will always be in the

(a) Interior of the triangle

(b) Midpoint of the diameter

(c) Exterior of the triangle

(d) Midpoint of the side of the triangle

36. What is the degree measure of a semicircle?

(a) 360 (b) 90 (c) 270 (d) 180

37. Which among the following is the point of intersection of the medians of a triangle?

(a) Circumcentre (b) Centroid (c) Orthocenter (d) Incentre

38. The height of a cone and its base diameter are equal. If the base radius is ‘r’ what is its slant height?

(a) 3r (b) 4r (c) √5r (d) √3r

39. The radii of two spheres are in the ratio 2:3. What is the ratio of their surface areas?

(a) 4:9 (b) 2:3 (c) 8:27 (d) 4:6

40. What is the common ratio of the progression 3√2, 6, 6√2 ?

(a) 3 (b) 2 (c) √2 (d) √3

41. In class of 100 students 50 students passed in Mathematics and 70 passed in English, 5 students failed in both Mathematics and English. How many students passed in both the subjects?

(a) 25 (b) 30 (c) 50 (d) 45

42. Speed of a boat in still water is 9 km/hr. It goes 12 km down stream and comes back to the starting point in three hours.What is the speed of water in the stream?

(a) 3 km/hr (b) 4 km/hr (c) 4.5 km/hr (d) 5 km/hr

43. A student was asked to add 16 and subtract 10 from a number.He by mistake added 10 and subtracted 16. If his answer is 14 what is the correct answer?

(a) 20 (b) 26 (c) 30 (d) 32

44. Find the area of a right angled triangle whose hypotenuse is 10 cm and base 8 cm.

(a) 48 sq.cm (b) 34 sq.cm (c) 24 sq.cm (d) 42 sq.cm

45. Find the next term of the series: 3, 6, 9, 18, 27, 54, ……

(a) 81 (b) 69 (c) 63 (d) 57

46. A number consists of 20 plus 20% of its value. The number is:

(a) 20 (b) 22 (c) 25 (d) 30

47. 20% of 5 + 5% of 20 =

(a) 5 (b) 2 (c) 6 (d) 21

48. The angle between the minute hand and the hour hand of a clock, when the time is 8.30

(a) 800 (b) 600 (c) 1050 (d) 750

49. Rs. 1581 is divided among A, B and C in the ratio 10 : 15 : 6. What is the share of B?

(a) 306 (b) 765 (c) 700 (d) 510

50. The sum of four consecutive counting numbers is 154. Find the smallest number:
(a) 36 (b) 37 (c) 38 (d) 31

Answers

1 A 11 B 21 C 31 D 41 A

2 B 12 A 22 B 32 D 42 A

3 A 13 D 23 A 33 B 43 B

4 B 14 D 24 C 34 D 44 C

5 C 15 A 25 B 35 C 45 A

6 B 16 C 26 A 36 D 46 C

7 C 17 D 27 B 37 B 47 B

8 D 18 A 28 D 38 C 48 D

9 C 19 C 29 C 39 C 49 B

10 B 20 B 30 B 40 C 50 B