TEST OF THE DAY - REASONING 

Puzzle Set-1:

There are nine friends J, A, P, N, I, S, D, K and T sitting around the circle. Four of them are facing away from the center and rest is facing towards the center. They like different languages viz. Hindi, English, Nepali, Telugu, Marathi, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Gujrati and Bengali but not necessarily in the same order. T is second to the left of D, who doesn’t like Punjabi, Hindi or Bhojpuri language. K likes Gujrati language. One who likes Nepali language is fourth to the right of the one who likes English. Person who likes English language is facing away from the center. D is fourth to the right of S, whose sitting orientation is same as A. A, who likes Marathi language is sitting fifth to the left of N, who is an immediate neighbor of T. I don’t like Hindi, Punjabi or Bhojpuri language. P likes Punjabi language, one who likes Bhojpuri language is facing toward the center as I faces, but they are not neighbors of each other. Bhojpuri language is not liked by T. S is facing away from the center. Hindi language is not liked by S. one who likes Telugu is sitting second to the right of the one who likes Hindi. A is second to the left of J, who likes English. T is in the group of I in terms of sitting direction with respect to center. K is facing away from the center and is second to the right of P. Nepali language is liked by a person who is facing away from the center.

Note: Facing the same direction means if some person faces the center then other person faces the center and vice versa. Also facing the opposite direction means if one person faces the center then other person faces outward direction and vice versa.

Puzzle Set- 2:

Ten people A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J live  on four different floors of a building. Each floor of building has 3 rooms - 1, 2 and 3 in the same order from left to right. Ground floor is numbered floor 1 and top most floor is numbered floor 4. Each room of building in such a way that room 1 of floor 2 is just above room 1 of floor 1 and so on. The two rooms in which no one lives are on even numbered room of even numbered floor. A does not live on even numbered room of even numbered floor. G lives in the room just above B. The room between E and H is vacant and E lives in one of the room above H. F lives in an odd numbered room which is in the left of H. J and I live on the same floor and no one else is living with them on that floor. A lives on a floor immediately above G's floor and the C live on one of the floor on which one room is vacant. J and C both lives in the room which is numbered 1.

Puzzle Set-3:

Seven athletes Manoj, Neha, Omvir, Puja, Kaynat, Rani and Surekha live on seven different floors of a building but not necessarily in the same order. The lowermost floor of the building is numbered 1, the one above that is numbered 2 and so on till the topmost floor is numbered 7. Each of them runs for a different distance in Racing competition 850 m, 1.3 km, 2 km, 2.8 km, 3.3 km, 4 km and 4.7 km but not necessarily in the same order.

The one who runs for 2.2km lives on the floor numbered 3. Only one person lives between Omvir and the one who runs for 2 km. The one who runs for 4 km lives immediately above Omvir. Only one person lives between the one who runs for 4 km and the one who runs for 1.3 km. The number of people living between Omvir and the one who runs for 1.3 km is the same as that between the one who runs for 4 km and Rani.Neha lives on an odd-numbered floor. Neha runs for 2 km more than the one who lives on floor number 4. Only two people live between Kaynat and the one who runs for 3.3 km. The one who runs for 2.8 km lives on one of the floors below Kaynat but not on floor number 2. Only two people live between Manoj and Surekha. The one who runs for 850 m lives immediately below Manoj.



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