Reasoning: Machine Input-Output Questions Set 17

Directions (1 – 5): Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
A number arrangement machine when given an input of words/numbers, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and steps of rearrangement.

Input: public owner 48 19 east 12 61 better item
Step 1: east public owner 48 19 12 61 better item
Step 2: east 19 public owner 48 12 61 better item
Step 3: east 19 better public owner 48 12 61 item
Step 4: east 19 better 12 public owner 48 61 item
Step 5: east 19 better 12 item public owner 48 61
Step 6: east 19 better 12 item 61 public owner 48
Step 7: east 19 better 12 item 61 public owner 48
Step 8: east 19 better 12 item 61 public 48 owner
This is the final arrangement and step 8 is the last step for this input.

Input: 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniform angel 8

1. How many elements are between ‘fission’ and ’65’ in step 5?
   A) None
   B) One
   C) Two
   D) Three
   E) More than three
   
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   Option E
   For words arrangement:
   in each alternate step, vowel, consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel
   For numbers arrangement:
   In alternate steps, numbers are taken as: lowest odd number, then lowest even number, then second lowest odd number and then second lowest even number.
   Input: 42 review eagle 23 fission 42 65 uniform angel 8
   Step 1: angel 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniform 8
   Step 2: angel 23 42 review eagle fission 65 uniform 8
   Step 3: angel 23 fission 42 review eagle 65 uniform 8
   Step 4: angel 23 fission 8 42 review eagle 65 uniform
   Step 5: angel 23 fission 8 eagle 42 review 65 uniform
   Step 6: angel 23 fission 8 eagle 65 42 review uniform
   Step 7: angel 23 fission 8 eagle 65 review 42 uniform
   
2. How many steps are done to complete the arrangement?
   A) 5
   B) 6
   C) 7
   D) 4
   E) None of these
   
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   Option C
   
   
3. Which word/number is 2nd to the right of 5th from the right end in step 2?
   A) uniform
   B) review
   C) 65
   D) angel
   E) 8
   
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   Option C
   
   
4. Which word/number is in between the words ‘fission’ and ‘eagle’ in step 5?
   A) 42
   B) review
   C) 8
   D) uniform
   E) None of these
   
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   Option C
   
   
5. If ‘eagle’ is related to ‘8’ in step 4 and ’65’ is related to ‘review’ in step 2, then in same way to what is ’65’ related to in step 6?
   A) 42
   B) 8
   C) fission
   D) review
   E) None of these
   
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   Option C
   
   

Directions (6 – 10): Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
A number arrangement machine when given an input of numbers/words, rearranges them following a particular rule in each step. The following is an illustration of input and steps of rearrangement.
Input: shine 43 25 61 carry frozen 16 layout
Step 1: 16 shine 43 25 61 carry frozen layout
Step 2: 16 shine 43 61 carry frozen layout 25
Step 3: carry 16 shine 43 61 frozen layout 25
Step 4: carry 16 shine 43 61 layout 25 frozen
Step 5: 43 carry 16 shine 61 layout 25 frozen
Step 6: 43 carry 16 shine layout 25 frozen 61
Step 7: layout 43 carry 16 shine 25 frozen 61
Step 8: layout 43 carry 16 25 frozen 61 shine
This is the final arrangement and step 8 is the last step for this input.

Input: document reference 58 table 53 14 file 39

6. Which step number would be the following output?
   “53 document 14 reference 58 table 39 file”
   A) Step 3
   B) Step 4
   C) Step 5
   D) Step 6
   E) None of the Above
   
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   Option B
   In each step, 1 word/number is taken and appended at beginning and last respectively
   Words in alphabetical order and numbers in ascending order in each respective step
   Input: document reference 58 table 53 14 file 39
   Step 1: 14 document reference 58 table 53 file 39
   Step 2: document 14 reference 58 table 53 file 39
   Step 3: document 14 reference 58 table 53 39 file
   Step 4: 53 document 14 reference 58 table 39 file
   Step 5: 53 document 14 reference table 39 file 58
   Step 6: reference 53 document 14 table 39 file 58
   Step 7: reference 53 document 14 39 file 58 table
   
7. How many steps would be needed to complete the arrangement?
   A) 3
   B) 4
   C) 5
   D) 6
   E) 7
   
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   Option E
   
   
8. If in the Step 3, ‘document’ interchanges its position with ‘table’ and ’14’ also interchanges its position with ‘39’, then which element will be second to the left of ’14’?
   A) 58
   B) file
   C) table
   D) document
   E) None of the Above
   
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   Option D
   
   Step 3 becomes: table 39 reference 58 document 53 14 file
   
9. Which word/number come exactly between ‘14’ and ‘table’ in Step 5 of the given input?
   A) document
   B) 39
   C) reference
   D) file
   E) None of the Above
   
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   Option C
   
   
10. Which of the following combinations represents the first the last element of the step 7 of the given Input?
    A) 53, 58
    B) 53, table
    C) reference, table
    D) reference, 58
    E) None of the Above
    
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    Option C
    
    

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