Verbal reasoning Eight questions with answers

Statements: verbal reasoning questions with answers

Statements: which sentence must be true, or cannot be true.

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GL Assessment: three of the 240 questions on its three verbal reasoning familiarisation papers.
Quest Assessments: in its verbal reasoning familiarisation booklet.

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Eight statements questions

Zainab, Noor, Ava and Dara are friends. Each of them may play any of these instruments, or none: the recorder, the violin and the drums.
Noor does not play the violin.
Ava plays the violin.
Nobody plays both the recorder and the violin.
Noor does not play the drums.
Dara plays the drums.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Ava plays more instruments than Dara.
- B Dara does not play the violin.
- C Ava does not play the drums.
- D Noor does not play any of the instruments.
- E Ava does not play the recorder.
Show the answer to question 1
Answer: E · Ava does not play the recorder.
Why:
Put together “Ava plays the violin” and “Nobody plays both the recorder and the violin”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Ava does not play the recorder” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Elif, Ines, Priya and Rosa are friends. Each of them may play any of these sports, or none: netball, hockey and cricket.
Ines plays more sports than Rosa.
Exactly two of them play cricket.
Everyone who plays cricket also plays hockey.
Only one of them plays netball.
Elif plays more sports than Rosa.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Rosa does not play cricket.
- B Ines plays exactly one sport.
- C Elif plays netball.
- D Elif plays exactly one sport.
- E Rosa does not play hockey.
Show the answer to question 2
Answer: A · Rosa does not play cricket.
Why:
Put together “Everyone who plays cricket also plays hockey”, “Only one of them plays netball”, “Ines plays more sports than Rosa” and “Elif plays more sports than Rosa”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Rosa does not play cricket” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Amara, Yusuf, Dara and Ava are friends. Each of them may go to any of these clubs, or none: book club, chess club and coding club.
Nobody goes to both chess club and coding club.
Yusuf goes to chess club.
Amara goes to more clubs than Dara.
Nobody goes to both book club and coding club.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Yusuf does not go to coding club.
- B Amara and Dara both go to chess club.
- C Neither Amara nor Dara goes to chess club.
- D Amara and Yusuf both go to chess club.
- E Yusuf and Dara both go to chess club.
Show the answer to question 3
Answer: A · Yusuf does not go to coding club.
Why:
Put together “Nobody goes to both chess club and coding club” and “Yusuf goes to chess club”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Yusuf does not go to coding club” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Rosa, Kai, Sana and Ivan are friends. Each of them may play any of these sports, or none: hockey, netball and cricket.
Sana plays hockey.
Sana plays exactly one sport.
Ivan does not play cricket.
Neither Rosa nor Sana plays netball.
Kai plays exactly one sport.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Rosa and Sana both play hockey.
- B Sana and Ivan both play hockey.
- C Kai and Sana both play hockey.
- D Sana does not play cricket.
- E Kai does not play hockey.
Show the answer to question 4
Answer: D · Sana does not play cricket.
Why:
Put together “Sana plays exactly one sport” and “Sana plays hockey”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Sana does not play cricket” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Ivan, Amara, Maya and Jonah are friends. Each of them may play any of these sports, or none: netball, cricket and rugby.
Everyone who plays rugby also plays cricket.
Exactly three of them play netball.
Everyone who plays rugby also plays netball.
Jonah does not play netball.
Ivan plays exactly one sport.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Neither Ivan nor Jonah plays cricket.
- B Nobody plays both netball and rugby.
- C Neither Ivan nor Jonah plays rugby.
- D Jonah plays more sports than Ivan.
- E Nobody plays both cricket and rugby.
Show the answer to question 5
Answer: C · Neither Ivan nor Jonah plays rugby.
Why:
Put together “Jonah does not play netball”, “Ivan plays exactly one sport” and “Everyone who plays rugby also plays netball”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Neither Ivan nor Jonah plays rugby” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Rosa, Jonah, Leo and Priya are friends. Each of them may play any of these instruments, or none: the flute, the drums and the violin.
Everyone who plays the flute also plays the drums.
Rosa does not play any of the instruments.
Everyone who plays the drums also plays the flute.
Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the flute.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Only one of them plays the flute.
- B Exactly two of them play the flute.
- C Exactly two of them play the drums.
- D Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the drums.
- E Only one of them plays the drums.
Show the answer to question 6
Answer: D · Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the drums.
Why:
Put together “Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the flute” and “Everyone who plays the drums also plays the flute”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the drums” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Otto, Ivan, Theo and Ines are friends. Each of them may go to any of these clubs, or none: drama club, book club and coding club.
Otto and Theo both go to drama club.
Ines does not go to book club.
Ivan and Theo both go to coding club.
Ivan goes to book club.
Otto goes to exactly one club.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below must be true?
- A Neither Otto nor Ines goes to book club.
- B Neither Otto nor Ines goes to coding club.
- C Ivan and Theo both go to book club.
- D Ivan goes to exactly one club.
- E Neither Ivan nor Ines goes to drama club.
Show the answer to question 7
Answer: A · Neither Otto nor Ines goes to book club.
Why:
Put together “Ines does not go to book club”, “Otto goes to exactly one club” and “Otto and Theo both go to drama club”.
Whichever way the rest turns out, “Neither Otto nor Ines goes to book club” has to be true.
Each of the other sentences could be false without breaking any statement.
Dara, Leo, Yusuf and Priya are friends. Each of them may go to any of these clubs, or none: drama club, coding club and choir.
Leo goes to drama club.
Nobody goes to both coding club and choir.
Yusuf does not go to drama club.
Yusuf goes to coding club.
If these statements are true, which one of the sentences below cannot be true?
- A Leo and Yusuf both go to coding club.
- B Leo goes to exactly two clubs.
- C Leo goes to choir.
- D Leo does not go to coding club.
- E Yusuf goes to more clubs than Leo.
Show the answer to question 8
Answer: E · Yusuf goes to more clubs than Leo.
Why:
Put together “Nobody goes to both coding club and choir”, “Yusuf does not go to drama club” and “Leo goes to drama club”.
If “Yusuf goes to more clubs than Leo” were true, one of those statements would be broken, so it cannot be true.
Each of the other sentences could be true without breaking any statement.

Answers

1. E · Ava does not play the recorder.
2. A · Rosa does not play cricket.
3. A · Yusuf does not go to coding club.
4. D · Sana does not play cricket.
5. C · Neither Ivan nor Jonah plays rugby.
6. D · Neither Rosa nor Jonah plays the drums.
7. A · Neither Otto nor Ines goes to book club.
8. E · Yusuf goes to more clubs than Leo.

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