GATE XH-C5 Analytical reasoning PYQs & Answers

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Aman, Beena, Chiranjeevi and Dhiman are four siblings. Each of them is an expert in one of the performing arts, namely, dance, theatre, guitar and percussion, not necessarily in that order. The dancer is taller than the theatre expert. Aman is taller than Chiranjeevi. The percussionist is taller than Beena but shorter than Aman. Beena is shorter than the dancer. The guitarist is not the tallest. Dhiman is shorter than both, guitarist and Chiranjeevi.

What is the expertise of Aman?

Your answerChoose one option.

Dance

Theatre

Guitar

Percussion

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Let

be an isosceles triangle with the base

of length 8 units. Let

be a perpendicular of length 4 units drawn from the vertex

onto the base

and

Then, which of the following is the set of values of the angles (in degrees)

respectively?

Your answerChoose one option.

45,45,90

100,40,40

90,45,45

40,40,100

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Four couples M-N, O-P, R-L, S-E meet to have a dinner together on an eight-seater rectangular dining table with four seats each on opposite sides. The men are named as M, O, R, S. Two of the men, O, R, sit on the two corners of one side of the table and M sits beside R. Further, none of the couples occupy seats opposite to each other. However, a person sits adjacent to the seat opposite to his/her spouse.

Based on the information, which of the following conclusions can be drawn?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

R sits opposite to N and S sits opposite to P.

R sits opposite to P and O sits opposite to N.

S sits opposite to N and O sits opposite to L.

M sits opposite to L and O sits opposite to E.

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Me and my spouse have a big family, comprising 8 females and 6 males. We have two sons and two daughters, of whom the eldest is unmarried. Out of my two grandsons and three granddaughters, only one grandson is a single child. His mother is my younger daughter.

Which of my children necessarily has two daughters?

Your answerChoose one option.

None of my sons

One of my sons

One of my daughters

Elder daughter

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Given the first four terms 30, 105, 385, 1001 in a sequence, which amongst the following is the fifth term of the sequence?

Your answerChoose one option.

2341

2431

2571

2751

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Three players named Arun, Babita and Chandu play a game by tossing an unbiased coin in turn whose rules are as follows:

Initially each player has 100 candies. If the tossing of this coin results in a ‘head’ then the player who tosses receives 10 candies from each of the other two players, whereas, if the toss results in a ‘tail’ then the player who tosses has to give away 20 candies to each of the other two players. A player with the highest number of candies at the end will be the winner. The game is started by Arun, followed by Babita and finally stopped after Chandu’s turn. Given that Arun is the only winner, which of the following hold(s) true?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

Arun has 90 candies more than Chandu

Both Babita and Chandu have the same number of candies

Arun has 90 candies more than Babita

Babita and Chandu together have 120 candies

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In a cricket match amongst 7 friends, named P1 – P7, P1 scored maximum individual runs of 25 and P7 scored minimum individual run of 0. No two friends had the same score. The median and average runs scored were 15 and 12.57, not necessarily in that order. Two players, P2 and P3, who scored more than median but less than maximum, scored less than 40 runs together. One player scored double the sum of non-zero scores of two players. What could be the possible value(s) of the second highest score?

Your answerSelect all correct options. You can choose more than one.

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A police station has six personnel comprising an inspector (I) and five constables (C₁, C₂, C₃, C₄, C₅). Normally, a ‘raid team’ of two, three, or four members is formed depending upon the nature of the raid. As per rule, it is mandatory that the inspector is part of raid team. Number of distinct raid teams that can be formed is __________________. (Answer in integer)

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A man visits four relatives on a day. He purchases some sweets and gives a part of it to the first relative. Next, he purchases the same number of sweets he is left with after he visited his first relative. He repeats this process while visiting his other relatives. Finally, he gives all the sweets to his fourth relative. It is known that he gives equal number of sweets to all the relatives and is left with no sweets after the fourth relative. Assuming that he initially purchased more than 20 sweets, the minimum number of sweets he gave to each relative is ______________. (Answer in integer)

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Which one of the following numbers is odd one out?

31541 42651 53791 64871 75981

Your answerChoose one option.

31541

42651

53791

75981

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