Sreedhar’s CCE PUZZLES (MAINS MODELS)

PUZZLES (MAINS MODELS)

Directions(1-5): Read the information given below and answer the questions that
follow:
Twelve friends Pawen, Ojas, Ram, Srinu, Tarun, Udaya, Venu, Tara, Vedika,
Yashvi, zahir and Krishna are sitting around a square table such that four friends

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are at the corners while the remaining are on the four sides of the table (two
friends each side). All eight friends are sitting at equal intervals. Also the friends
at alternate seats faces the centre and away from the centre. Some additional
information is given about them.
Pawan is sitting at one of the corners and is neither a neighbour of Ram nor of
Udaya.
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Tara is facing the centre and is sitting opposite Yashvi, who is not sitting at any
of the sides of the table.

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Ram is three places to the left of Krishna and Udaya is four places to the right of
Ram.
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Zahir sits between Ojas and Tarun. Neither Ojas nor Tarun is neighbour of Tara
Srinu is facing the centre and is opposite Vedika. Zahir is not sitting at any of the
corners.
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1. What is the position of Vedika?

1)Second to the left of Rama 2)Immediate right of Krishna
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3)Third to the left of Tarun 4)Opposite Venu
5)Immediate left of Yashvi
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2. Which of the following is not correct?

1)Tarun is facing center 2)Venu is facing center
3)Krishna is facing center 4)Srinu is facing center 5)All correct
3. Counting from Krishna and going anti-clockwise how many friends sit between
Krishna and Udaya
1)One 2)Three 3)Five 4)Seven 5)Four
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4. What is the position of Srinu with respect to Powen?
1)Immediate left 2)Immediate right 3)Opposite
4)Second to the left 5)Second to the right
5. Between which of these pairs of friends does Pavan sit?
1)Pawen and Udaya 2)Uday and Tarun
3)Udaya and Ojas 4)Venu and Srinu 5)Ram and Tara
Directions (6-10): Study the following informa­tion carefully and answer the given
questions following it.
Ten people G, H, I, J, K, L, W, X, Y and Z live in a building with four floors.
Each floor has 3 flats - flat 1, flat 2, and flat 3 in the same order from left to right.
Ground floor is numbered floor 1 and top most floor is floor 4. Eachflat is built in
such a way that Flat 1 of floor 2 is just above Flat 1 of floor 1 and so on.

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The two flats in which no one lives are on even numbered floor and in even
numbered flat. G does not live on even numbered floor and even numbered flat. W
lives in the flat just above H. The flat between K and X is vacant and K lives in
one of the flat above X. L lives in an odd numbered flat which is in the left of X. Z
and Y lives on the same floor and no one else is living with them on that floor. G
lives on a floor and flat just above W’s floor and flat. I live on one of the floor on
which one flat is vacant. Z and I both lives in the flat which is numbered1.
6. Who is living just above X?
1) K 2) G 3) J 4) Z 5) No one
7. Which of the following statement is true about G?

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1) G lives on an even numbered flat 2) K is the immediate neighbour of G
3) G lives on a floor on which one flat is vacant 4) None is true
5) G and W lives on the same floor
8. Which of the following lives on the ground floor?
1) G 2) I 3) L 4) W 5) Both 1) & 3)
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Which of the following does not belong to a certain group?
1) J 2) L 3) W 4) H 5) Y
10. Who is living in flat 1 on floor 4?
1) Z

E 2) Y 3) No one 4) G 5) W
Directions (11-15): Each question or group of questions is based on a passage or
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set of conditions. For each question, select the best answer choice given.
Ms Jones is very fussy in watering her flower-pots. She waters pots A, B, C,
D, E, F, G, H, I, and J on every day of the week. In going from one pot to another,
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she strictly ad­heres to the following rules:

The first two pots to be watered every day must be selected from C, D, E, and
C
F.
H cannot be watered before D, and J cannot be wa­tered after I.
G can be watered after B.
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F must be watered before C.

11. If D is the fourth pot to be watered on a day, which of the following pots cannot be
fifth on that day?
1) C 2) F 3) E 4) H 5) J
12. Which of the following is a possible arrangement for the watering of the first five
pots?
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1) E,H,F,D,C 2) F,C,H,B,D 3) C,D,E,B,H 4) C,J,E,D,A 5) D,F,B,C,A
13. If D is to be watered immediately after J, then which of the following must be
true?
1) F is the first pot to be watered.
2) Of the first two pots to be watered, one is F.
3) H is the sixth pot to be watered.
4) H is either the sixth or seventh pot to be watered.
5) B is the fourth pot to be watered.
14. If the given conditions are reversed, that is first be­comes last, before becomes
after, and so on, which of the following is a possible arrangement for watering the
last four pots?
1) G, D, B, H 2) H, F, C, E 3) F, B, C, E 4)C,B,E,F 5)E,F,H.G

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15. If D is the fourth pot to be watered, and J the fifth, then which of the following
can be the third pot to be wa­tered?
1)A 2)F 3)H 4)G 5)I
Directions (16-20): Study the following informa­tion carefully and answer the
given questions following it.
A train started from Patna railway junction (Jn) for Bhagalpur Jn. Twelve
persons boarded the train. There are five stations between Patna Jn and Bhagalpur
Jn. These stations are #1, #2, #3, #4 and #5 and are in the same order. Station #1
is the nearest to Patna.
M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U and V are the persons who boarded the train from

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the above-mentioned five stations.
On each station only two persons boarded the train. Each person used the
train once. Nobody alighted on sta­tions #1 and #2. Two persons alighted from the
train on sta­tions #3, #4 and #5 each. Persons boarding at stations #1 or #2,
alighted on consecutive stations.
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R and S boarded at station #2, the second station after Patna. K boarded the
train with L while O boarded the train with Q. U boarded at station #4. V did not
board the train with M, N or U. T boarded on the same station where K alighted. O

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and R alighted at stations #3 and #4 respectively. K alighted before S. M did not
board where Q alighted.
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When the train reached Bhagalpur L, N, P, T, U and V got down from the
train.
16. Who boarded the train at station #3?
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l)T and M 2)U and M 3)U and N 4)T and N 5) T and either M or N
17. Who boarded the train at station #4?
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l)U and N 2)U and M 3) U and either M or N
4) P and either V or T 5) None
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18. Who left the train at station # 5?

1) Can’t say 2)S and M 3)R and Q 4)Q and K 5) None
19. K alighted at which station?
1) Can’t say 2) #3 3) #4 4) Either #3 or #4 5) None
20. Who board at Patna
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1) O and Q 2) K and L 3) R and S 4) M and T 5) L and V
Directions (21-25): Study the following information carefully and answer the
given questions.
The seven mobile manufacturing companies SBI, PNB, ING, HDFC, ICICI,
CSB, IOB are having their plant in places namely Maharashtra, Andra Pradesh,
Karnataka, Haryana, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Bihar not in the respective
order. And the companies making contract with dealers such as TCS, MICRO
SOFT, WIPRO, INTEL, MAHENDRA, ASUS and IBM. The dealers are located in
different places such as Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata
and Patna not in the respective order.
• IBM and INTEL are not contact with Andra Pradesh and West Bengal based
mobile manufacturing companies respectively. Either SBI or IOB likes to contract
with WIPROW which is not located in Kolkata and Hyderabad
• The dealer which located in Mumbai contract with the mobile that is located in
Haryana.
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• CSB contract with Hyderabad based dealer and is not located in Tamil Nadu and
Andra Pradesh.
• ASUS is Bangalore based dealer. And Kolkata based dealer not deals with IOB
and SBI.
• Maharashtra and Karnataka based companies making contract with Delhi and
Patna based dealers respectively.
• SBI is not serving to the Delhi and Mumbai based dealer. ING is having plant in
Bihar.
• HDFC do not dealing with dealers of Chennai, Mumbai and also ASUS dealer
• The Mumbai based MICRO SOFT does not contract with ICICI and PNB. IOB

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which is located in Haryana doesn’t deal with Tamil Nadu based TCS dealer.
ASUS will contract with Bihar based company.
• Chennai based dealer making deal with ICICI which is not located in Andra
Pradesh and West Bengal

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• MAHENDRA is not from Patna and Kolkata and makes deal with PNB mobile.
HDFC Contract with which of the following dealer?
1) MAHENDRA 2) INTEL 3) WIPROW 4) IBM 5) TCS
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MICRO SOFT contract with which of the following mobile?
1) ING 2) CSB 3) ICICI 4) IOB 5) PNB
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23. Which of the following mobile plant located in Tamil Nadu?
1) IOB 2) ING 3) CSB 4) PNB 5) ICICI
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24. Which of the following combinations is true?

1) PNB – Tamil Nadu – MAHENDRA – Chennai
2) SBI – Haryana – MICRO SOFT – Mumbai
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3) HDFC – Andra Pradesh – INTEL – Kolkata
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4) ICICI – Maharashtra – TCS – Delhi

5) SBI – Haryana – TCS – Mumbai
25. Which of the following is ‘CSB’ related to?
1) Mumbai 2) Chennai 3) Delhi 4) Bangalore 5) Hyderabad
Directions(26-30): Read the information given below and answer the questions
that follow:
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A popular cricket website selected a cricket team called “chak de cricket”
the conditions for the selection were:
* The team has five batsmen, one wicket keeper, one all rounder and four bowlers.
* The bats men have to play only at positions 1 to 5 , the wicket keeper and all
rounder play at positions 6 and 7 (in no specific order) and the bowlers play at
positions 8 to 11.
* Once the voting was comprising players of 6 months. Some of the points that
were noted were.
* India and England were the only countries that had one player each.
* West Indies had three players in the team, which was the most for any country.
* Warn, from South Africa, play at position Six.
* In terms of positions, Gavasker immediately succeeded Akram and immediately
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* Marshall did not play for England.
* Lara, who was from India, was the wicket-keeper and he immediately preceded
Tendulkar in the playing order.
* Sobers and Megrath were from Pakistan and they played at positions second
and tenth respectively.
* The bowler who played at position ninth was from England.
* Hayden and Akram played for the same country, which was not Australia and
exactly one player played between them.
* Two of the batsmen were Australian

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* Gilchrist is one of the bowlers.
* Tendulkar did not play for West indies
26. For which country did Tendulkar play?
1)South Africa 2)India 3)Australia 4)Pakistan 5)West Indies
27. At which position did Gavasker play?
1)One 2)Two
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28. Who immediately followed Akram in the batting order?

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1)Tenulkar

E2)Lara 3)Haydon
How many players play between Sobers and Warne?
4)Marshall 5)Gavaskar
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1)None 2)One 3)Three 4)Four 5)Two
30. Who among the following is the first Bowler?
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1)Akram 2)Tendulkar 3)Lara 4)Marshall 5)Warne

Directions(31-35): Read the information given below and answer the questions
that follow:
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In a class five persons A,B,C,D and E are the top five rankers in a class in
three subjects Telugu, English, Hindi not necessarily in the same order. No two
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student got the same rank in a subject and no students got the same rank in a
subject and no student got the same rank in any two subjects. Further it given
that.
* In English A got better rank than C.
* Neither B not E got the first rank in any subject.
* E got better rank in Telugu than D in English.
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* The student who got second rank in Telugu got fourth rank in Hindi and third
rank in English,
* In each subject B always got worse rank than D.
* C got better rank than D in Hindi.
31. Who got Third rank in Telugu?
1)A 2)B 3)C 4)D 5)E
32. What is A’s rank in Hindi?
1)First 2)Second 3)Third 4)Fourth 5)Fifth
33. How many students got better rank than B in Hindi?
1)Three 2)None 3)Two 4)Four 5)One
34. Who among the following got alternative ranks?
1)B 2)A 3)C 4)D 5)E

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35. Which among the following is definitely false?
1)A always got better rank than C
2)D always got better rank than B 3)E got consecutive ranks
4)A got alternative ranks 5)B got consecutive ranks
Direction (36-40) : Read the given information to answer the given question :
Eight people viz. A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H were born on four different dates
viz. 7th, 9th, 16th and 19th of each of the month viz. March and July. The ones
born a date which is a perfect square like a colour viz. blue, yellow, green and red
while the ones born on a prime numbered date like a fruit viz. apple, mango,
cherry and banana.

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(Note : None of the given information is necessarily in the same order. No one
was born on any other date or in any other month except for the given months
and dates. Only one person was born on one date in each month)
The one who likes yellow was born in March on a date which is a perfect
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square. No one was born behveen the one who likes yellow and D. D does not like
any of the given colours. Only three people were born between D and the one who
likes mango. No one was born between the one who likes mango and blue. The

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number of people born after the one who likes blue is one less than the number of
people born before A. C does not like any of the given colour and was born after
the one who likes blue. The one who likes green was born in the same month as
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D. Only Iwo people were born behveen the one who likes green and H. The one
who likes cherry was born in the same month as H. The one who likes apple was
born immediately before B. B does not like mango. As many people were born
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before B as after G. E does not like any of the given colours. F likes a colour but
not gireen
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36. Who amongst the following likes red ?
1) B 2) A 3) G 4) F
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5) None of those given as options

37. Which of the following Is not true as per the given arrangement ?
1) C was born In July 2) G was born after F
3) H and F were born In the same months 4) E was born on 7th July
5) All the given statements are true
38. Who was born on 16th March?
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1)D 2)A 3)G 4)F 5)E
39. Who among the following likes cherry?
1)F 2)G 3)H 4)A 5)B
40. Who was born on 19th July?
1)C 2)A 3) D 4)B 5)E
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