Reasoning: Machine Input-Output Questions Set 18

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: 23 air 16 house numeric 34 orange 29 48 dice
Step 1: air 23 16 house numeric 34 orange 29 48 dice
Step 2: air 23 house numeric 34 orange 29 48 dice 18
Step 3: dice air 23 house numeric 34 orange 29 48 18
Step 4: dice air house numeric 34 orange 29 48 18 21
Step 5: house dice air numeric 34 orange 29 48 18 21
Step 6: house dice air numeric 34 orange 48 18 21 31
Step 7: orange house dice air numeric 34 48 18 21 31
Step 8: orange house dice air numeric 48 18 21 31 32
Step 9: numeric orange house dice air 48 18 21 31 32
Step 10: numeric orange house dice air 18 21 31 32 50
This is the final arrangement and step 10 is the last step for this input.

Input: 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniformed font 8 34

1. How many elements are between ‘fission’ and ’34’ in step 5?
   A) None
   B) One
   C) Two
   D) Three
   E) More than three
   
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   Option C
   For words arrangement:
   Number of letters are counted and out accordingly at start in increasing order in alternate steps
   For numbers arrangement:
   in Each alternate steps, words are taken in ascending order, +2, -2, +2, -2 and +2
   Input: 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniformed font 8 34
   Step 1: font 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniformed 8 34
   Step 2: font 42 review eagle 23 fission 65 uniformed 34 10
   Step 3: eagle font 42 review 23 fission 65 uniformed 34 10
   Step 4: eagle font 42 review fission 65 uniformed 34 10 21
   Step 5: review eagle font 42 fission 65 uniformed 34 10 21
   Step 6: review eagle font 42 fission 65 uniformed 10 21 36
   Step 7: fission review eagle font 42 65 uniformed 10 21 36
   Step 8: fission review eagle font 65 uniformed 10 21 36 40
   Step 9: uniformed fission review eagle font 65 10 21 36 40
   Step 10: uniformed fission review eagle font 10 21 36 40 67
   
2. What is the total of numbers which are 3rd from right end in step 9 and 3rd from left end in step 3?
   A) 57
   B) 63
   C) 71
   D) 67
   E) 59
   
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   Option B
   
   21+42 = 63
3. Which word/number is 2nd to the right of 6th from the right end in step 7?
   A) uniformed
   B) 10
   C) 65
   D) eagle
   E) font
   
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   Option A
   
   
4. Which word/number is in between the words ‘65’ and ‘eagle’ in step 5?
   A) 42
   B) review
   C) font
   D) uniformed
   E) fission
   
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   Option A
   
   
5. If ‘eagle’ is related to ‘fission’ in step 5 and ’42’ is related to ‘uniformed’ in step 6, then in same way to what is ‘font’ related to in step 8?
   A) 65
   B) uniformed
   C) 21
   D) 10
   E) eagle
   
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   Option D
   
   

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: 65 13 carry dial 24 giant review 42 light 56
Step 1: carry 13 dial 24 giant review 42 light 56 65
Step 2: carry dial 13 24 giant review 42 light 56 65
Step 3: carry dial giant 13 24 review light 42 56 65
Step 4: carry dial giant light 13 review 24 42 56 65
Step 5: carry dial giant light review 13 24 42 56 65
Step 6: carry 13 dial giant light 24 42 56 review 65
Step 7: carry 13 dial 24 giant 42 light 56 review 65
This is the final arrangement and step 7 is the last step for this input.

Input: dice layout 63 view 41 26 home 39 fond 88

6. Which step number would be the following output?
   “dice fond home layout view 26 39 41 63 88”
   A) Step 3
   B) Step 4
   C) Step 5
   D) Step 6
   E) There is no such step
   
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   Option B
   Observe the last step, the words are in ascending order account to their first letter.
   Numbers are also in ascending order.
   Input: view layout 63 dice 41 26 home 39 fond 88
   Step 1: dice view layout 63 41 26 home 39 fond 88
   Step 2: dice fond view layout 41 26 home 39 63 88
   Step 3: dice fond home view layout 26 39 41 63 88
   Step 4: dice fond home layout view 26 39 41 63 88
   Step 5: dice 26 fond home layout 39 41 63 view 88
   Step 6: dice 26 fond 39 home 41 layout 63 view 88
   
7. How many steps are done to complete the arrangement?
   A) 4
   B) 7
   C) 5
   D) 6
   E) None of these
   
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   Option D
   
   
8. In step 4, which number/word is 3rd to right of 7th from right end?
   A) dice
   B) layout
   C) 39
   D) home
   E) 26
   
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   Option C
   
   
9. Which elements come exactly between ‘26’ and ‘39’ in Step 6 of the given input?
   A) 88
   B) view
   C) fond
   D) home
   E) 41
   
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   Option C
   
   
10. Which of the following combinations represents the first and last elements of the step 3?
    A) dice, 88
    B) dice, 63
    C) view, 88
    D) dice, home
    E) None of the Above
    
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    Option A
    
    

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