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REASONING SECTION TEST Max. Marks : 50

No. of Qs. 50

Time : 40 min.

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 1-5): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions: Eight persons from different banks, viz UCO Bank, Syndicate Bank, Canara Bank, PNB, Dena Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian Bank and Bank of Maharashtra, are sitting in two parallel rows containing four people each, in such a way that there is an equal distance between adjacent persons. In row 1: A, B, C and D are seated and all of them are facing south. In row 2: P, Q, R and S are seated and all of them are facing north. Therefore, in the given seating arrangement each member seated in a row faces another member of the other row.

(All the information given above does not necessarily represent the order of seating as in the final arrangement.) C sits second to the right of the person from Bank of Maharashtra. R is an immediate neighbour of the person who faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra. Only one person sits between R and the person from PNB. The immediate neighbour of the person from PNB faces the person from Canara Bank. The person from UCO Bank faces the person from Oriental Bank of Commerce.

R is not from Oriental Bank of Commerce. P is not from PNB. P does not face the person from Bank of Maharashtra. Q faces the person from Dena Bank. The one who faces S sits to the immediate left of A. B does not sit at any of the extreme ends of the line. The person from Bank of Maharashtra does not face the person from Syndicate Bank.

1. Which of the following is true regarding A? (a) The person from UCO Bank faces A. (b) The person from Bank of Maharashtra is an immediate neighbour of A. (c) A faces the person who sits second to the right of R. (d) A is from Oriental Bank of Commerce. (e) A sits at one of the extreme ends of the line.

2. Who is seated between R and the person from PNB? (a) The person from Oriental Bank of Commerce (b) P (c) Q (d) The person from Syndicate Bank (e) S 3. Who amongst the following sit at extreme ends of the rows? (a) D and the person from PNB

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1.

a b c d e

2.

a b c d e

Date : ............/........ /................

(b) The persons from Indian Bank and UCO Bank (c) The persons from Dena Bank and P (d) The persons from Syndicate Bank and D (e) C, Q 4. Who amongst the following faces the person from Bank of Maharashtra? (a) The person from Indian Bank (b) P (c) R (d) The person from Syndicate Bank (e) The person from Canara Bank 5. P is related to Dena Bank in the same way as B is related to PNB based on the given arrangement. Who amongst the following is D related to, following the same pattern? (a) Syndicate Bank (b) Canara Bank (c) Bank of Maharashtra (d) Indian Bank (e) Oriental Bank of Commerce DIRECTIONS (Qs. 6-10) : Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions Eight People - A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H live in eight different floors of building (but not necessarily in the same order). The lowermost floor of the building is numbered one, the one above that is numbered two, and so on till the topmost floor is numbered eight. Each one of them also owns a different brands of laptops, namely Acer, Lenovo, Dell, HP, Samsung, Apple, Asus and TOSHIBA (but not necessarily in the same order).

F lives an odd numbered floor above the floor numbered four. Only one person lives between B and the one who owns Samsung. Only three people live between D and the one who owns Apple. The one who owns Asus lives immediately above G, G owns neither Apple nor Acer. E does not own Asus. Only three people live between G and A. The one who owns TOSHIBA lives immediately above the one who owns Lenovo, but not on the topmost floor. C lives an one of the odd numbered floors above the one who owns Apple. Only one person lives between F and the one who owns DELL. Only one person lives between the one who owns TOSHIBA and H. Only two people live between C and the one who owns Acer. The number of people leaving above F is same as the number of people living between F and D

3.

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b c d e

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a

b c d e

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a

b c d

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Which of the following Statements is true with respect to the given information? (a) G lives immediately above the one who owns Apple (b) E lives immediately above C (c) Only three people live between F and the one who owns TOSHIBA. (d) D owns Samsung. (e) All the given statements are true.

Who amongst the following lives exactly between H and the one who owns Lenovo Laptop? (a) B, C (b) G, D (c) F, G (d) A, B (e) E, A Which of the following laptops does E own? (a) TOSHIBA (b) Lenovo (c) DELL (d) Samsung (e) Asus Four of the following five are alike in a certain way and so form a group. Which one of the following does not belong to the group? (a) G - HP (b) C - Apple (c) F - Samsung (d) H - TOSHIBA (e) D - DELL How many people live between C and the one who owns DELL? (a) Four (b) Three (c) Two (d) Five (e) None

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 11-15) : Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions Ten students namely viz A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I and J of ten different colleges but not necessarily in the same order have seminar on five different days starting from Monday to Friday of the same week. Each student have seminar at two different time slots, i.e 10.00 AM and 3 P.M I has a seminar on Tuesday at 10.00 A.M. The number of people who have seminar between G and D is same as the number of people who have seminar between C and H. B has a seminar immediately before I. I does not have seminar on any of the days before G. The one who has seminar at 10.00 A.M immediately before J. H does not has seminar at 3 P.M D has a seminar immediately after the day of one who has seminar on Monday. F does not have seminar at 3 P.M. D does not has seminar on any one of the days after E. Only three people have seminar between G and E. Neither E nor G does not have seminar on Friday. Only two people have seminar between F and J. F does not have seminar on any of the days after H. 11. How many persons have seminar at 3'0 clock between G and C? (a) 5 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 4 (e) None of these.

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6. a 11. a 16. a

b c d e b c d e b

c d

e

7. a b c 12. a b 17. a b

d e

c d e c d e

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13.

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15.

Who among the following person has seminar at 3 P.M? (a) C (b) G (c) I (d) F (e) E Four among the following form a group in a certain way.

Which of the following does not belong to Group? (a) G - Tuesday (b) I - Wednesday (c) F - Friday (d) G - Wednesday (e) E - Thursday Which of the following is correctly matched? (a) D - Monday (b) C - Tuesday (c) A - Friday (d) G - Tuesday (e) E - Wednesday Who among the following have seminar on Friday? (a) I, E (b) H, J (c) B, A (d) D, E (e) E, C

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 16-20): Study the following information carefully to answer the given questions.

Eight people L, M, N, O, P, Q, R and S are sitting around a circular table with equal distance between each other but not necessarily in the same order. Some of them are facing the centre while some are facing outside.(i.e away from the centre)  M sits third to the left of L. Only three people sit between M and S. P sits to the immediate right of S.  Immediate neighbours of P face opposite directions(i.e. if one neighbour faces the centre then the other neighbour faces outside and vice-versa.) Only one person sit between P and O.   R sits second to the right of O. Both R and N face the same direction as S.(i.e if S faces the centre then R and N also faces the centre and vice-versa.)   Immediate neighbours of Q faces opposite directions(i.e if one neighbour faces the centre then the other neighbour faces outside and Vice-versa.)   P does not face outside. O faces a direction opposite to that of M.  16. How many people sit between L and Q when counted from the left of Q? (a) Five (b) None (c) Four (d) One (e) Two 17. Which of the following statements is true as per the given arrangement? (a) Q faces the centre (b) Only three people sit between P and L (c) R sits to the immediate right of N (d) None of the given options is true (e) N is an immediate neighbour of O 18. Who amongst the following sits third to the left of P? (a) Q (b) N (c) M (d) L (e) R

8. a b 13. a 18. a

c d e

b c d e b c d e

9. a 14. a

b c d e b c d e

10.

15.

a b c d e a b c d e

141 19. How many people face the centre as per the given arrangement? (a) Four (b) One (c) Two (d) Three (e) More than four 20. What will come in place of question mark (?) in the given series based on the positions as given in the arrangement?

PS LR MP SM ? (a) ON (b) SO (c) NQ (d) OL (e) LS

(d) all best 81 49 and equal 47 25 my strength 16 11 (e) None of these DIRECTIONS (Qs. 26-28): Read the following information carefully to answer the following questions

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 21-25) : Study the following information carefully and answer the given questions.

26.

When a word and number arrangement machine is given an input line of words and numbers, it arranges them following a particular rule. The following is an illustration of Input and rearrangement.

INPUT : expect 30 more funny 41 52 sea 61 ring 36 89 joy STEP 1 : expect funny 30 more 41 52 sea 61 ring 36 89 joy STEP 2 : expect funny 89 61 30 more 41 52 sea ring 36 joy STEP 3 : expect funny 89 61 joy more 30 41 52 sea ring 36 STEP 4 : expect funny 89 61 joy more 52 41 30 sea ring 36 STEP 5 : expect funny 89 61 joy more 52 41 sea ring 30 36 STEP 6 : expect funny 89 61 joy more 52 41 ring sea 36 30 And step VI is the last step of the above input. As per the rules followed in the above step, find out the appropriate step for the given output.

21. Which of the following term exactly comes between 49 and equal in step 3 ? (a) my (b) 11 (c) strength (d) best (e) None of these 22. How many elements are there between 25 and 16 in step 5 ? (a) One (b) Three (c) Two (d) Five (e) None of these 23. In step 6, equal and my, 11 and 49 are interchanged then which will be placed between 49 and equal ? (a) Two (b) Three (c) Four (d) Six (e) None of these 24. What is the position of 25 in step 4 from the right end? (a) Third (b) Fourth (c) Sixth (d) Fifth (e) None of these 25. Which of the following will be the final step of the given input ? (a) all and 16 11 best equal 25 47 my strength 49 81 (b) my and 49 81 equal best 47 25 all strength 16 11 (c) all and 81 49 best equal 25 47 my strength 11 16

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19.

24.

29.

a a a b

b c d e b c d e c d

e

20.

25.

30.

a b c d e a

b c d

e

a

b c d

e

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28.

29.

30.

'P # Q' means 'P is the daughter of Q' 'P © Q' means 'Q is the brother of P' 'P = Q' means 'Q is the sister of P' 'P & Q' means 'P is the son of Q' 'P * Q' means 'P is the father of Q' 'P @ Q' means 'P is the mother of Q' What does the expression 'P @ R = S © T & V'? (a) V is the husband of P (b) R is the son of V (c) R is the daughter of V (d) V is the wife of P (e) None of these Which of the following indicates that 'C is the paternal uncle of D'? (a) C & V # N @ L © D (b) C & V & L @ N © D (c) D & L & N @ V © C (d) D & N # V @ L © C (e) None of these Which of the following can be the correct conclusion drawn from the expression 'L = M # N © P * Q'? (a) Q is the grandson of M (b) L is the uncle of N (c) N is the uncle of Q (d) Q is the niece of N (e) None of these Which of the following symbols should be placed in the blank spaces respectively(in the same order from left to right) in order to complete the given expression in such a manner that both 'D>S' as well as 'EB' definitely holds true?

B_A_S_E_D (a) >, , <, = (b) >, >, , < (c) ,,, (d) , =,,< (e) Other than those given as options In Which of the following expressions does the expression 'L=T' to definitely hold true? (a) K  L ? R = P < S  T (b) U  T  M = F  A  L (c) L  C > Q  B = N  T (d) G  L = A < B  S  T (e) T  E = G  W = Y  L

21. a 26. a

b c d e b c d e

22. a 27. a

b c d e b c d e

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28.

a

b c d

e

a

b c d

e

142 DIRECTIONS (Qs. 31-35) : Read the following infomation carefully and answer the questions that follow.

31. Statements: Some trees are plants. All trees are houses.

No plant is pot. All tools are pots.

Conclusions: I. Some plants are tools is a possibility.

II. All trees are tools is a possibility.

III. No plant is house.

IV. All plants are houses is a possibility. (a) Only I and III follow. (b) Either III or IV follows (c) Only IV follows (d) None follows. (e) Only II follow 32. Statements: All trees are plants. All houses are trees.

Some pots are plants. All tools are plants.

Conclusions: I. Some plants are not houses II. Some tools being trees is a possibility III. All pots are tools is a possibility.

IV. All houses are tools is a possibility. (a) Only III and IV follow (b) Only II, III, and IV follow (c) Only I and IV follow. (d) All follow. (e) None of these 33. Statements: Some roofs are figures. All figures are lions.

All lions are goats. No tool is lion.

Conclusions: I. Some tools are figures is a possibility.

II. All tools being goats is a possibility.

III. No roof is tool.

IV. Some goats are figures (a) Only II and IV follow (b) Only I and II follow (c) Only either I or II and IV follow (d) All follows (e) None follows.

34. Statements : No photo is frame. All frames are sites.

Some buckets are photos. Some sites are buckets.

Conclusions: I. No photo is site.

II. All buckets being frames is a possibility III. Some sites are photos IV. Some buckets are frames. (a) All follows (b) Only II and III follow (c) Only II, III and IV follow. (d) Only either I or III follows (e) None of these 35. Statements: All seats are covers. No cover is bun. Some buns are roofs. Some sites are covers.

Conclusions: I. All sites being buns is a possibility II. All sites being roof is a possibility III. Some sites are not buns.

IV. No seat is bun

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31.

36.

41.

a a

b c d e b c d e

a

b c d e

32.

37.

a b c d e a b c d e

(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

Only II, III and either I or IV follow.

Only III follows All follows.

Only II, III and IV follow None of these

DIRECTIONS (Qs. 36-38): Study the following information to answer the given questions.

In a certain code ‘colours of the sky’ is written as ‘ki la fa so’, ‘rainbow colours’ is written as ‘ro ki’ and ‘sky high rocket’ is written as ‘la pe jo’ and ‘the rocket world’ is written as ‘pe so ne’.

36. Which of the following is the code for ‘colours sky high’? (a) ro jo la (b) fa la jo (c) la ki jo (d) ki jo la (e) fa ki jo 37. Which of the following will/may represent ‘the’? (a) Only fa (b) Only la (c) Only so (d) Either (a) or (b) (e) Either (a) or (c) 38. What does ‘pe’ represent in the code? (a) colours (b) sky (c) high (d) rainbow (e) rocket DIRECTIONS (Qs. 39-43) : Each of the questions below consists of a question and two statements numbered I and II given below it. You have to decide whether the data provided in the statements are sufficient to answer the question. Read both the statements and and answer the questions.

Give answer (a) if the data in statement I alone is sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

Give answer (b) if the data in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not sufficient to answer the question.

Give answer (c) if the data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are sufficient to answer the question; and Give answer (d) if the data given in both the statements I and II together are not sufficient to answer the question; and Give answer (e) if the data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question.

39. How is J related to K? I. J’s father P is the brother of N. N is K’s wife.

II. J is the son of P. P is the brother of N. N is K’s wife.

40. On which floor of the building does G stay? (the building has five floor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.)

I. Only the even-numbered floors are occupied and G does not stay on the second floor.

II. G does not stay on an odd-numbered floor.

41. How many days did Raju take to complete his assignment?

I. Mohit correctly remembers that Raju took more than 3 days less than 9 days to complete his assignment.

II. Mina correctly remembers that Raju took more than 7 days less than 11 days to complete his assignment.

33. a 38. a

b c d e b c d e

34. a 39. a

b c d e b c d e

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40.

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b c d

e

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b c d

e

143 42. How is the word ‘GATES’ coded in the code language?

I. ‘BRICK’ is coded as ‘LDJSC’ and ‘PIN’ is coded as ‘OJQ’ II. ‘WATER’ is coded as ‘SFUBX’ and ‘DISH’ is coded as ‘ITJE’ 43. Among A, B, C and D, which school has the highest number of students.

I. School A has fewer students than school D. II. School C has fewer students than school D. DIRECTIONS (Qs. 44-46) : In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions numbered I and II. You have to consider the statement and the following assumptions and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.

Give answer (a) If only assumption I is implicit (b) If only assumption II is implicit (c) If either I or II is implicit (d) If neither I nor II is implicit (e) If both I and II are implicit.

44. Statement: "You are hereby appointed as a programmer with a probation period of one year and your performance will be reviewed at the end of the period for confirmation." - A line in an appointment letter.

Assumptions: I. The performance of an individual generally is not known at the time of appointment offer.

II. Generally an individual tries to prove his worth in the probation period.

45. Statement: It is desirable to put the child in school at the age of 5 or so.

Assumptions: I. At that age the child reaches appropriate level of development and is ready to learn.

II. The schools do not admit children after six years of age.

46. Statement: "In order to bring punctuality in our office, we must provide conveyance allowance to our employees." In charge of a company tells Personnel Manager.

Assumptions: I.

Conveyance allowance will not help in bringing punctuality.

II. Discipline and reward should always go hand in hand.

47. How

many

pairs

of

letters

are

there

in

the

word

UNDERSUBSCRIBED which have number of letters between

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41.

46.

a b c d

e

a b c d

e

42 .

47 .

a b c d

e

a b c d

e

them in the word two less than the number of letters between them in English alphabet? (a) one (b) two (c) three (d) four (e) more than four 48. The positions of the first and the fifth digits in the number 89123654 are interchanged. Similarly, the positions of the second and the sixth digits are interchanged. And so on.

Which of the following will be the second digit from the right end after the rearrangement? (a) 9 (b) 8 (c) 1 (d) 2 (e) None of these 49. Statement: Exporters in the capital are alleging that commercial banks are violating a Reserve Bank of India directive to operate a post shipment export credit denominated in foreign currency at international rates from January this year.

Courses of Action: I. The officers concerned in the commercial banks are to be suspended.

II. The RBI should be asked to stop giving such directives to commercial banks. (a) Only I follows (b) Only II follows (c) Either I or II follows (d) Neither I nor II follows (e) Both I and II follow 50. Statement It is reported that during the last fortnight there has been three cases of near miss situation involving two aircrafts over the busy city airport. In all these cases both the aircrafts came perilously close to each other and could avoid collision as the pilots acted just in time.

Courses of action I. The pilots of all the six aircrafts involved in these incidents should immediately be derostered.

II. Some flights should be diverted to other airports for the next few months to decongest the sky over the city airport.

III. Air traffic controllers of the city airport should be sent for refresher courses in batches to prepare themselves to handle such pressure situation. (a) Only 1 follows (b) Only II follows (c) Only III follows (d) II and III follows (e) None of these

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Hints and Solutions (Oriental (Bank of Bank (Dena Mahaof Bank) rashtra) Commerce) A B D

(1-5) :

(Canara Bank) C

Facing South

STEP 4 : all and 81 49 best equal 47 25 11 my strength 16 STEP 5 : all and 81 49 best equal 47 25 my strength 11 16 STEP 6 : all and 81 49 best equal 47 25 my strength 16 11 Rule : In step 1 two words picked arranged in alphabetical order and placed it at the left corner and in step 2 , two numbers picked and arranged it in descending order next to words and so on.

Input: best 11 all 25 my 47 81 equal 49 strength 16 and 21. (d)

Facing North P (Syndicate Bank) 1. (b) 2. (e) (6-10) : Floor No 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 6. (a) 7.

(11-15) : Person G B I D E C F A H J 11. (c) 12.

(16-20) :

Q (PNB)

3. (d)4. (a)

S (Indian Bank)

R (UCO Bank)

5. (d)

Person B C G F H E A D (e) 8. (c)

Bike HP Asus Samsung Apple Acer DELL TOSHIBA Lenovo (c) 10. (b)

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Day Mon Mon Tue Tue Wed Wed Thu Thu Fri Fri (a) 13. (d)

Time Slot 10.00 AM 3.00 PM 10.00 AM 3.00 PM 10.00 AM 3.00 PM 10.00 AM 3.00 PM 10.00 AM 3.0 M 14. (e) 15. (b)

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(d)

(b) All plants are houses is a possibility, so I does not follow.

H

Trees

Tools Pots

III is a possibility as

Trees

Houses Pots Tools

Plants

Possibility IV is possibility as

P

N

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O M

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Plants

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II is a possibility.

S

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26. (a) 27. (c) 28. (e) 29. (d) 30. (e) 31. (c) If some plants are tools, then some plants will be pots too which is not possible.

If all trees are tools, then also some plants will be pots too which is not possible.

Some plants are definitely houses. IV is a possibility

(a) 18.

(c)

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(d)

20.

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(21-25): STEP 1 : all and best 11 25 my 47 81 equal 49 strength 16 STEP 2 : all and 81 49 best 11 25 my 47 equal strength 16 STEP 3 : all and 81 49 best equal 11 25 my 47 strength 16

(a) If some tools are figures, then some lions will be tools which

is not possible.

II is a possibility.

III is not definite. Roofs can be tools 34. (d) I and III are false, subject and predicate same so either or occurs IV is not definite.

II. If all buckets are frames, then some frames will be photos which is not possible.

35. (d) If all sites are buns, then some covers will be buns which is not possible.

II is a possibility.

All sites are buns is not a possibility, so III follows.

No seat is bun, because no cover is bun (36-38) : Colours of the sky = ki la fa so ...(i) Rainbow colours = ro ki ...(ii) [from (i) and (ii)] ď &#x153; Colours = ki.....

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36. (e) 37. (c) 38. (e) 39. (b)

sky high rocket = la pe jo ...(iii) from (i) and (iii), sky = la the rocket world = pe so ne from (i) and (iv), the = so ...(iv) and from (iii) and (iv), rocket = pe colours sky high = ki la jo ‘the’ represents only ‘so’. ‘pe’ represents ‘rocket’.  I. P N K ( )

b J

(–)

Using I only, we cannot determine if J is the nephew or niece of K. II. P « N K ( ∗)

b J

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( ,)

( ∗)

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41.

45.

J is the nephew of K. th (a) I. Using I only, we can determine that G stays on 4 floor. (e) 42. (c) 43. (d) 44. (e) (a) Since the statement talks of putting the child in school at the age of 5, it means that the child is mentally prepared for the same at this age. So, I is implicit. But nothing about admission after 6 years of age is mentioned in the statement. So, II is not implicit.

46.

(b) Assumption I goes against the statement.

So, it is not implicit. The allowance will serve as a reward to the employees and shall provoke them to come on time. So, II is implicit.

47.

(e) U N D E R S U B S C R I B E D

48.

(c) 2nd digit from right = 7th digit from left Now, 7th digit after rearrangement = 3rd digit in the given number = 1 (d) 50. (c)

49.

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