Maths Puzzles Questions with Answers for Competitive Exams

Maths Puzzles Questions with Answers for Bank and SSC Exams:

Directions(11-13): Read the following information carefully and answer the questions which follow:
 A, B, C, D, E and F live on different floors in the same building having six floors numbered one to six (the ground floor is numbered 1, the floor above it, number 2 and so on and the topmost floor is numbered 6).

A lives on an even numbered floor. There are two floors between the floors on which D and F live. F lives on a floor above D’s floor. D does not live on floor number 2. B does not live on an odd-numbered floor. C does not live on any of the floors below F’s floor. E does not live on a floor immediately above or immediately below the floor on which B lives.

Q.11.Who amongst the following live on the floors exactly between D and F?
 (A) E, A
 (B) C, B
 (C) E, C
 (D) A, C
 (E) B, A

Q.12. On which of the following floors does B live?
 (A) 6th
 (B) 4th
 (C) 2nd
 (D) 5th
 (E) Cannot be determined

Q.13. The positions of the first and the fifth digits of the number 81943275 are interchanged. Similarly, the positions of the second and the sixth digits are interchanged and so on till the fourth and the eighth digits. Which of the following will be the third digit from the right end after the rearrangement?
 (A) 1
 (B) 9
 (C) 2
 (D) 4
 (E) None of these

Directions (14-18): Study the following information carefully and answer the questions given below.

A Guest house accommodates twelve persons in six rooms. The persons are A, B, C, D, E, F, P, Q, R, S, T and U. The rooms are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. Each room of the guest house is coloured with different colours. Those colours are blue, green, yellow, black, pink and white. Each room accommodates two persons.
 A, B, Q, R, T and U are the only males in the group. Female's rooms are odd - numbered whereas male's rooms are even-numbered.

(1) A and B share room. C’s roommate is not D.

(2) E does not live in room no. 6, which is yellow. Neither room no. 5 nor room no. 4 is blue or black.

(3) The pink room is an odd number but it is not room no. 3. F lives in room no. 5 with D

(4) P’s roommate is not S. The blue room is even numbered.

(5) R lives in the green room whereas D lives in the white room.

(6) S does not live in r room no. 3. T’s room is blue.

Q.14.  Who among the following are accommodated in the pink-coloured room?

(A) E and S                        

(B) C and S

(C) P and C                       

(D) Data inadequate

(E) None of these

Q.15.  Who among the following are accommodated in room no. 3?

(A) P and C                      

(B) P and E

(C) C and E                       

(D) Data inadequate

(E) None of these

Q.16.   In which A and B are accommodated?

(A) room no. 2                                 

(B) room no. 4

(C) room no. 6                                 

(D) Data inadequate

(E) None of these

Q.17.  Which of the following statements are definitely true?

(1) U is the partner of T

(2) Q is the partner of D

(3) R is the partner of Q

(4) U is the partner of R

(A) Only (1)                                     

(B) Only (2)

(C) Only (3)                                    

(D) Both (1) and (2)

(E) None

Q.18.  Which of the following statements is/are definitely false?

(1)  A and B are accommodated in the yellow room

(2) Q is accommodated either in the blue room or in the green room

(3) C is accommodated either in the Pink room or in the black room

(4) U is accommodated in room no. 2

(A) None                            

(B) Only D

(C) Only A & D                  

(D) Only B & D

(E) All are true

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