English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide
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English and Logical Reasoning Prep Guide · Logical Reasoning · Puzzles
A word arrangement machine, when given a particular input,...
A word arrangement machine, when given a particular input, rearranges it following a particular rule. The following is the illustration of the input and the steps of arrangement:
Input: Ja Ma Da Ch Ha Bo Ka
Step I: Da Ja Ma Ha Bo Ka Ch
Step II: Ha Da Ja Ma Ka Ch Bo
Step III: Ja Ha Da Ka Ch Bo Ma
and so on.
As per the rule followed in the above steps, find out the appropriate answers in the following questions. If Step II of an input is ‘ga re bu la ra hi hai’, what would be step VII?
Options
- Ara ga hai hi re la bu
- Bhai ga ra bu hi re la
- Chi ra hai ga la bu re
- Dra hai ga hi re la bu
Correct answer
D. ra hai ga hi re la bu
Step-by-step solution
For the sake of convenience, assign numbers to each word of the input.
Input:
Now, in Step I, the third word comes at the beginning and the first and second words are pushed rightwards. Also, the fourth word goes at the end and the remaining words are pushed leftwards.
In Step II, the fourth word from the previous step comes at the beginning while the first three words are pushed rightwards. Also, the fifth word of Step I goes at the end and the remaining words are pushed leftwards.
These steps are repeated thereafter For convenience, we plot the movement of each word in each step by the numbers assigned to them in the input.
From the table the numbers in step II are
ga re bu la ra hi hai
In Step VII, we have the numbers arranged as