Logical Reasoning Part 2

Nine horses participated in a horse tournament. Five races were held in this tournament. The winner of a race gets 5 points, 2nd gets 3 and the 3rd gets 1. The table gives the points tally.

Horse A B C D E F G H I
Points 5 5 8 2 5 6 4 10 0


One race is held between five horses. The first race is held among the first 5 horses from the left in the above table. Out of these horses, A drops out of the race and a new horse. ie. F enters into the race. In the next race, B drops out and G enters and so on. It is also given that H is the only horse that scored in 2 consecutive races.
Q.1 What was the position of horse F in race 4?
a. 4th b. 2nd c. 3nd d. cannot be determined e.1st

Q.2 What is the ratio of the points scored by “G” and E in race 5?
a. 1:3 b. 3:1 c. 1:5 d. cannot be determined e. 5:1

Q.3 The first 3 rankers of the race 3 in some order?
a. C,E,G b. D,E,F c. C,D,F d. C,E,F e. C,G,F

Q.4 D could have come third in which of the following races?
a. Race 1 b. Race 3 c. Race 4 d. Race 5 e. cannot be determined

Q.5 Suppose if C had 6 points and E had 7 points while the points of the rest of the horses remain unchanged
then E could’ve come second in
a. One race b. Two races c. At most one race d. At most 2 races e. Cannot be determined

Logical Reasoning Part 1

Question 1

In a shooting competition, each player in his turn takes 3 shots at the target. The competition starts with first player taking 3 shots, followed by second player taking three shots and so on. After the last player has taken the shots, the turn comes back to the first player who again takes 3 shots then second player takes 3 shots and so on. For each player if he hits the target he gets 3 points while no point is awarded to or deducted from the other players, whereas is he misses1 point is deducted from his score and 1 point is awarded to each of the other competitors. The first player(s) to reach the 100 points mark will be declared as the winner(s) of the competition. Once the winner(s) is/are decided, the competition ends. Exactly 5 players A, B, C, D and E participated in the competition, with their turns not necessarily being in the same order. At the end of the competition, D alone won the competition and had the same number of misses as that of A. The net score of C was 74 points and he registered same number of hits as that of B. The net scores of the players whose turns were third, fourth and fifth were in the descending order. There were a total of 86 hits and 54 misses.


Q.1.) What was the number of hits registered by E ?

a)14 b)15 c)16 d)Cannot be determined


Q.2.) Who had the second least number of misses ?

a) A b) E c) B d) C


Q.3.) The player whose turn was fourth is...

a) A b) B c) C d) Cannot be determined


Q.4.) The net score of A was ?

a) 75 b) 90 c) 95 d)Cannot be determined


Q.5.) What is the difference between the net scores of B and D ?

a) 21 b) 24 c) 22 d)Cannot be determined