A certain automaker aims to increase its market share by deeply discounting its vehicles’ prices for the next several months. The discounts will cut into profits, but because they will be heavily advertised the manufacturer hopes that they will attract buyers away from rival manufacturers’ cars. In the longer term, the automaker envisions that customers initially attracted by the discounts may become loyal customers. In assessing the plan’s chances of achieving its aim, it would be most useful to know which of the following?

P3C, R5F, T8I, V12L, ___?

PMC Sample 1
Logical Reasoning
Letters and Symbols Series
Elimination Tool:

Statements:

I Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the unlawful gathering of large number of people.

II The citizens’ forum called a general strike in protest against the police atrocities.

ZA5, Y4B, XC6, W3D, _____

If 7(x-2) = 3x – 2. What is the value of x?

NUMS 2014
Logical Reasoning
Letters and Symbols Series
Elimination Tool:

JAK, KBL, LCM, MDN, _____

Statement: The killer entric fever has so far claimed 100 lives in some tribal villages in M.P. during the past three weeks.

Courses of Action:

I The residents of these villages should immediately be shifted to a non-infected area.

II The Government should immediately send a medical squad to this area to restrict spread of the killer disease.

On the day Bilal is born,
Jamila weighs more than Javed.
Javed weighs less than Junaid.
Of the three babies, Junaid weighs the most.
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

PMC Sample 3
Logical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Elimination Tool:

UDOMETER is coded as DUMOTERE then how will SUBLEASE be coded?

NUMS 2015
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

Joe is younger than Kathy.

Mark was born after Joe.

Kathy is older than Mark.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

Suppose in a certain language MADRAS is coded as NBESBT. Then BOMBAY is coded in that language as:

NUMS 2015
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

A fruit basket contains more apples than lemons.

There are more lemons in the basket than there are oranges.

The basket contains more apples than oranges.

If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

CMM, EOO, GQQ, _____, KUU

PMC Practice 6
Logical Reasoning
Letters and Symbols Series
Elimination Tool:

Statements and Actions

Statement The Management of School M has decided to give free breakfast from next academic year to all the students in its primary section through its canteen even though they will not get any government grant.

Courses of Action:

I) The school will have to admit many poor students who will seek admission for the next academic year.

II) The canteen facilities and utensils have to be checked and new purchases to be made to equip it properly.

Ill) Funds will have to be raised to support the scheme for years to come.

Logical Reasoning
Logical Problems
Elimination Tool:

In virtually any industry, technological improvements increase labor productivity, which is the output of goods and services per person-hour worked. In Parland’s industries, labor productivity is significantly higher than it is in Vergia’s industries. Clearly, therefore, Parland’s industries must, on the whole, be further advanced technologically than Vergia’s are. The argument is most vulnerable to which ofthe following criticisms?

Statements:
I. The literacy rate in the district has been increasing for the last four years.
II. The district administration has conducted extensive training programme for the workers involved in the literacy drive.

PMC Practice 3
Logical Reasoning
Course of Action
Elimination Tool:

On the day Bilal is born,
Jamila weighs more than Javed.
Javed weighs less than Junaid.
Of the three babies, Junaid weighs the most.
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is:

PMC Sample 1
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool: