UCO Bank PO Reasoning

 UCO Bank Reasoning

Q) Six plays A,B,C,D,E,F are to be staged from Monday to Sunday with one day being an off day, though not necessarily in the same order. Each play has a different time duration of 30 minutes,60 minutes,90 minutes,120 minutes,150 minutes and 180 minutes and again not in the same order.
Sunday is not the off day and the play of 30 minutes duration was staged on that day. Play A got staged immediately before Play E.there are two plays between play F and Play C.play F is of 180 minutes duration and play C is of 90 minutes duration.
The off day is after the staging of play E and there are two days between off day and play A. Play D is for 120 minutes and not staged on monday.the play staged immediately before off day is of 180 minutes. Play A is less than 150 minutes.

Let’s start this question

From
Sunday is not the off day and the play of 30 minutes duration was staged on that day. So

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
						30

From there are two plays between play F and Play C.

F is of 180 minutes duration and play C is of 90 minutes duration.

So arrangement will be either

XX	XX	XX	XX
F	XX	XX	C
180	XX	XX	90

or

XX	XX	XX	XX
C	XX	XX	F
90	XX	XX	180

and the play staged immediately before off day is of 180 minutes

So using above figures the possible figures will be

EITHER

XX	XX	XX	XX
F	Off Day	XX	C
180	…	XX	90

OR

XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
C	XX	XX	F	Off Day
90	XX	XX	180	….

TRICKY PART OF THIS QUESTION IS THAT THERE WILL BE A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT FROM BOTH FIGURES PROVIDED ABOVE AND THEY WILL FULFILL ALL CONDITION GIVEN IN THE QUESTION, SO YOU CAN JUDGE THE CORRECT ARRANGEMENT ONLY AFTER READING THOSE 5-7 QUESTIONS GIVEN TO US WHICH WILL BE SOLVED BY CORRECT ARRANGEMENT ONLY.

Now we consider FIRST FIGURE

XX	XX	XX	XX
F	XX	XX	C
180	XX	XX	90

Now using the statement

From there are two days between off day and play A

and Sunday will be of 30 minutes

Resultant figure will be

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
A	E	F	Off		C
		180			90	30

From the statement D is of 2 hrs, we conclude D will be on Friday because Sunday will stage play of 30 minutes

and from Play A is less than 150 minutes only 60 minutes slot is left and final arrangement will be as below

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
A	E	F	Off	D	C	B
60	150	180		120	90	30

Now in this figure there is only one person between F and C so this figure is not correct

To prove this i take up an example.

Q) Which day is Off day

a) Tuesday

b) Monday

c) Friday

d) Saturday

e) Cannot be Determined

If we try to answer this question, no option matches with our answer i.e. Thursday, so this arrangement is not correct

So we consider other arrangement

XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
C	XX	XX	F	Off Day
90	XX	XX	180	….

So

From, there are two days between off day and play A

Off … … A

or

A … ….. Off

but Off … …. A cannot be possible because there are only 7 days and if we use Off.. … A the days will become above 7

XX	XX	XX	XX	XX
C	A	XX	F	Off Day
90	XX	XX	180	….

From

Now from Play A got staged immediately before Play E

A E

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
C	A	E	F	Off
90			180			30

From the statement D is of 2 hrs, we conclude D will be on Friday because Sunday will stage play of 30 minutes

and from Play A is less than 150 minutes only 60 minutes slot is left and final arrangement will be as below

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
C	A	E	F	Off	D	B
90	60	150	180		120	30

Following Question was asked in OBC PO exam So i thought of giving explanation to it

Seven animated movies
Up
Finding Nemo
Ice Age
Aladin
Shark tale
Beauty
The Incredibles
were screened in a workshop not necessarily in thee same order. The workshop started on Monday and ended on Sunday. Only one movie was screened on each day.

Beauty was screened on Wednesday. The Incredibles was screened on fourth day after Up was screened. Ice age was screened before thursday but not on Monday. Shark Tale and Aladin were not screened on saturday but Shark talewas screened before Saturday.

Now we will start from

Beauty was screened on Wednesday

Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday	Beauty
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

The Incredibles was screened on fourth day after Up was screened

So pattern will be

UP

–

–

–

The Incredibles

and this is only possible if UP is screened on Monday or tuesday

Ice age was screened before Thursday but not on Monday.

So Ice Age will automatically come to Tuesday and thus UP will be screened on Monday and The Incredibles will be on Friday

Monday	UP
Tuesday	Ice Age
Wednesday	Beauty
Thursday
Friday	The Incredibles
Saturday
Sunday

Shark Tale and Aladin were not screened on saturday but Shark tale was screened before Saturday.

So Shark Tale will come on Thursday and Aladin on Sunday.

Nemo will automatically come n Saturday

Monday	UP
Tuesday	Ice Age
Wednesday	Beauty
Thursday	Shark Tale
Friday	The Incredibles
Saturday	Nemo
Sunday	Aladin