CSAT Reasoning questions from IAS 2024.
A father said to his son, “n years back I was as old as you are now. My present age is four times your age n years back”. If the sum of the present ages of the father and the son is 130 years, what is the difference of their ages?
A Main Statement is followed by four Statements labelled P, Q, R and S. Choose the ordered pair of the Statements where the first Statement implies the second, and the two Statements are logically consistent with the Main Statement. Main Statement: Pradeep becomes either a Director or a Producer. Statement P: Pradeep is a Director Statement Q: Pradeep is a Producer. Statement R: Pradeep is not a Director. Statement S: Pradeep is not a Producer. Select the correct answer.
A person walks 100 m straight from his house, turns left and walks 100 m, again turns left and walks 300 m, then turns right and walks 100 m to reach his office. In which direction does he walk initially from his house if his office is exactly in the North-East direction?
A person walks 100 m West ward, then turns left and walks 100 m. He then takes 225° turn clockwise. In which direction is he walking now?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. A certain amount was distributed among X, Y and Z. Question: Who received the least amount? 1. Statement-1: X received 4/5 of what Y and Z together received. 2. Statement-II: Y received 2/7 of what X and Z together received. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What are the values of m and n where m and n are natural numbers? Statement-I: m + n > mn and m > n. Statement-II: The product of m and n is 24. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. P, Q, R and S appeared in a test. Question: Has P scored more marks than Q? Statement-I: The sum of the marks scored by P and Q is equal to the sum of the marks scored by R and S. Statement-II: The sum of the marks scored by P and S is more than the sum of the marks scored by Q and R. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. There are three distinct prime numbers whose sum is a prime number. Question: What are those three numbers? 1. Statement-1: Their sum is less than 23. 2. Statement-II: One of the numbers is 5. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: Is (x + y) an integer? 1. Statement-I: (2x+y) is an integer. 2. Statement-II: (x+2y) is an integer. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Age of each of P and Q is less than 100 years but more than 10 years. If you interchange the digits of the age of P, the number represents the age of Q. Question: What is the difference of their ages? 1. Statement-I: The age of P is greater than the age of Q. 2. Statement-II: The sum of their ages is 11/6 times their difference. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What are the unique values of x and y, where x, y are distinct natural numbers? 1. Statement-I: x / y is odd. 2. Statement-II: xy = 12 Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. A person buys three articles p, q and r for ₹50. The price of the article q is ₹16 which is the least. Question: What is the price of the article p? Statement-I: The cost of p is not more than that of r. Statement-II: The cost of r is not more than that of p. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: If the average marks in a class are 60, then what is the number of students in the class? Statement-I: The highest marks in the class are 70 and the lowest marks are 50. Statement-II: Exclusion of highest and lowest marks from the class does not change the average. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Question is given followed by two Statements I and II. Consider the Question and the Statements. Question: What is the time required to download the software? 1. Statement-I: The size of the software is 12 megabytes. 2. Statement-II: The transfer rate is 2.4 kilobytes per second. Which one of the following is correct in respect of the above Question and the Statements?
A Statement is given followed by two Conclusions numbered I and II. Consider the Statement and the Conclusions. Statement: India is the world’s largest producer of milk. Conclusion-I: India is the world’s largest exporter of milk. Conclusion-II: India does not import milk. Which one of the following is correct?
Consider the sequence A_BCD_BBCDABC_DABC_D that follows a certain pattern. Which one of the following completes the sequence?
How many times the hour hand and the minute hand coincide in a clock between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. (same day)?
If a + b means a – b; a – b means a × b; a × b means a ÷ b; a ÷ b means a + b, then what is the value of 10 + 30 – 100 × 50 ÷ 25? (Operations are to be replaced simultaneously)
If in a certain code, ‘ABCD’ is written as 24 and ‘EFGH’ is written as 1680, then how is IJKL’ written in that code?
If in a certain code, ‘POT’ is written as ATOP and ‘TRAP’ is written as APART, then how is ‘ARENA’ written in that code?
If P means ‘greater than (>)’; Q means less than (<)’; R means ‘not greater than \(\left( \boxed{>} \right)\)’; S means ‘not less than \(\left( \boxed{<} \right)\)’ and T means ‘equal to (=)’, then consider the following statements: 1. If 2x(S)3y and 3x(T)4z, then 9y(P)8z. 2. If x(Q)2y and y(R)z, then x(R)z. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
In some code, letters P, Q, R, S, T represent numbers 4, 5, 10, 12, 15. It is not known which letter represents which number. If Q – S = 2S and T = R + S + 3, then what is the value of P + R – T?
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What is the least possible number of cuts required to cut a cube into 64 identical pieces?
What will come in place of * in the sequence 3, 14, 39, 84, *, 258?