HSBC Logical Questions and Answers

1. Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C.
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

True

16.62%

False

72.75%

Uncertain

10.63%

From the first two statements, we know that of the three teams, Team A has the scored the highest number of goals, so the third statement is necessarily false.

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2. A dice with six faces is marked with six numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 respectively. This dice is rolled three times and three positions are shown as:

Find the number opposite to 1.

2

7.77%

6

43.01%

5

26.68%

4

22.54%

From figures (ii) and (iii), we can conclude that the numbers 2, 4, 3, and 6 appear adjacent to the letter 5. Therefore, the number 1 appears opposite to 5. In other words, 5 appears opposite to 1.

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3. 1. A + B means A is the brother of B
2. A × B means A is the father of B
3. A ÷ B means A is the mother of B

Which of the following would mean "G is the son of H"?

H × I × G

13.07%

H + G × I

11.55%

H ÷ G ÷ I

11.55%

H × G + I

63.83%

Go by options. In fourth option, our diagram will be like

We don't know the gender of I. So. We will not put any symbol on its side.
Now that you have understood the topic well and solved the above examples, you are ready to take the test on relations.

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4. Pointing to a girl in the photograph, Ajay said, "Her mother's brother is the only son of my mother's father." How is the girl's mother related to Ajay ?

mother

24.5%

sister

34.56%

aunt

32.55%

grandmother

8.39%

Only son of Ajay's mother's father -- Ajay's maternal uncle.
So, the girl's maternal uncle is Ajay's maternal uncle.
Thus, the girl's mother is Ajay's aunt.

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5. A child is looking for his father. He went 90 metres in the East before turning to his right. He went 20 meters before turning to his right again to look for his father at his uncle’s place 30 metres from this point. His father was not there. From here he went 100 metres to the North before meeting his father in a street. What is the smallest distance between the starting point and his father’s position?

80 m

16.32%

100 m

55.26%

140 m

19.47%

260 m

8.95%

Solution:

The movement of the child from A to E is as shown in fig.
Clearly, the child meets his father at E.
Now, AF = (AB - FB)
= (AB - DC) = (90 - 30) m = 60 m.
EF = (DE - DF) = (DE - BC)
= (100 - 20) m = 80 m.

Now the distance is square root of (60² + 80²), which will be 100 metres.

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6. In a certain code 'MISSIONS' is written as 'MSIISNOS'. How is 'ONLINE' written in that code?

OLNNIE

82.8%

ONILEN

5.73%

NOILEN

8.96%

LNOENI

2.51%

First and last letter remain same. The others interchange their positions in pair of two. So, NL become LN IN become NI so code of ONLINE will be OLNNIE

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7. Two bus tickets from city Amb to Sunhet and three tickets from city Amb to Dehra cost Rs. 77 but three tickets from city Amb to Sunhet and two tickets from city Amb to Dehra cost Rs. 73. What are the fares for cities Sunhet and Dehra from Amb?

Rs. 4, Rs. 23

17.11%

Rs. 13, Rs. 17

62.03%

Rs. 15, Rs. 14

8.56%

Rs. 17, Rs. 13

12.3%

Let Rs. x be the fare of city Sunhet from city Amb and Rs. y be the fare of city Dehra from city Amb.
So, we will get the equations
Then, 2x + 3y = 77 ... (i) and
3x + 2y = 73 ... (ii)
Multiplying (i) by 3 & (ii) by 2 & subtracting, we get: 5y = 85 or y = 17.
Putting y = 17 in (i), we get: x = 13.

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8. 7 9 8 6 10 9 5 11 10 ? 12

4

62.99%

11

24.8%

56

4.33%

5

7.87%

There are three parallel series going on in this question. The 1^st, 4^th, 7^th terms are using logic of -1, 2^nd, 5^th and 8^th terms are using logic of +1 and 3^rd, 6^th and 9^th terms are using logic of +1 again. Answer will be 4, which belongs to 1^st, 4^th and 7^th term.