Deductive Reasoning

Test 2

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Instructions

This is a warm-up test comprising just 22 questions and you will have 25 minutes
in which to correctly answer each question.

In each question you will be presented with a set of premises. These may be verbal,
numerical, abstract or a combination. You will need to use problem solving and
deductive reasoning skills to draw logical conclusions from these premises.

Read thoroughly the passage of information and the question you are being asked
and select the correct answer from the various options.

You will have to work quickly and accurately to perform well in this test. If you don’t
know the answer to a question, leave it and come back to it if you have time.

There is only one correct answer per question.

Base your answers only on the information given in the passage.

Try to find a time and place where you will not be interrupted during the test. When
you are ready, begin the test.
 Accountants produce £20 per hour.
Andrea produces £2 per hour more in her secretarial work than Sophie.
Opportunity cost is potential money lost.
Sophie produces £8 per hour in her secretarial work.
Andrea is an accountant.

Q1 Andrea’s opportunity cost per hour is more than Sophie’s.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Accountants produce £20 per hour.
Andrea produces £2 per hour more in her secretarial work than Sophie.
Opportunity cost is potential money lost.
Sophie produces £8 per hour in her secretarial work.
Andrea is an accountant.

Q2 If Andrea did the secretarial work instead of Sophie in a 40-hour

working week, she would have an opportunity cost of £80.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Accountants produce £20 per hour.
Andrea produces £2 per hour more in her secretarial work than Sophie.
Opportunity cost is potential money lost.
Sophie produces £8 per hour in her secretarial work.
Andrea is an accountant.

Q3 In a 46-hour working week, Andrea produces £552 more than

Sophie.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Accountants produce £20 per hour.
Andrea produces £2 per hour more in her secretarial work than Sophie.
Opportunity cost is potential money lost.
Sophie produces £8 per hour in her secretarial work.
Andrea is an accountant.

Q4 Accountants always produce at least twice the amount of

money as secretaries.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Q5 Gloriana travelled the Lancaster and Severn canals. How many
more miles per lock did they pass through than number of
bridges?

(A) 2
(B) 4
(C) 6
(D) 8
(E) 10

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 Q6 Gloriana travelled across 2 canals and went under 4 bridges.
Which canals did Gloriana traverse?

(A) Lancaster and Thames

(B) Trent and Severn
(C) Thames and Kennet & Avon
(D) Grand Union and Trent
(E) Grand Union and Lancaster

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 The Iceland flag shares the same colours as the Slavic countries.
The flag of the United Kingdom bears the colours red, blue and white.
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and Nordic countries.
The flags of Nordic countries bear a cross symbol in a rectangular field.
The Norwegian flag shares the same colours as the United Kingdom.
The flags of Slavic countries always bear red, blue and white colours.

Q7 The United Kingdom is a Slavic country.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The Iceland flag shares the same colours as the Slavic countries.
The flag of the United Kingdom bears the colours red, blue and white.
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and Nordic countries.
The flags of Nordic countries bear a cross symbol in a rectangular field.
The Norwegian flag shares the same colours as the United Kingdom.
The flags of Slavic countries always bear red, blue and white colours.

Q8 The flags of Slavic countries bear different colours to the

Norwegian flag.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The Iceland flag shares the same colours as the Slavic countries.
The flag of the United Kingdom bears the colours red, blue and white.
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and Nordic countries.
The flags of Nordic countries bear a cross symbol in a rectangular field.
The Norwegian flag shares the same colours as the United Kingdom.
The flags of Slavic countries always bear red, blue and white colours.

Q9 Aside the Slavic countries, only one other bear the colours red,
blue and white.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The Iceland flag shares the same colours as the Slavic countries.
The flag of the United Kingdom bears the colours red, blue and white.
Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark and Nordic countries.
The flags of Nordic countries bear a cross symbol in a rectangular field.
The Norwegian flag shares the same colours as the United Kingdom.
The flags of Slavic countries always bear red, blue and white colours.

Q10 Only two Nordic countries have the same colours as the Slavic
countries.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Copyright is a legal means to protect an author’s work, giving them the
exclusive right to reproduce, licence or exploit their work. There are exceptions
and limitations to copyright which allows for work under copyright to be used
without a licence. Fair use allows for a legally unlicensed use provided the work
is used for criticism, parody, research, or reporting the news.

Q11 Taking each line in the argument to be true, which statement

must be demonstrably false?

(A) Using copyrighted work for criticism is illegal.

(B) Fair use is an exception to copyright.
(C) Copyright is obeyed by all.
(D) Copyright allows the author to report their work to the news.
(E) Fair use allows someone other than the author to parody their work.

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 Copyright is a legal means to protect an author’s work, giving them the
exclusive right to reproduce, licence or exploit their work. There are exceptions
and limitations to copyright which allows for work under copyright to be used
without a licence. Fair use allows for a legally unlicensed use provided the work
is used for criticism, parody, research, or reporting the news.

Q12 Taking each line in the argument to be true, which statement

cannot be true?

(A) Copyright gives legal control to the author of the work.

(B) To reproduce a copyrighted work without licence is illegal.
(C) Copyright has limitations and exceptions to its legal rights.
(D) One can obtain a licence to copyright material outside of fair use legal territory.
(E) Parody is not a limitation to copyright.

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 The red sofa is twice the size of a chair.
The yellow stool is placed to the right of the green dining table.
The chair is the same colour as the furniture next to the sofa.
Furniture is either to the right or left of other furniture.
Only yellow furniture is next to the sofa.
The dining table is twice the size of the sofa.

Q13 The dining table is eight times bigger than a chair.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The red sofa is twice the size of a chair.
The yellow stool is placed to the right of the green dining table.
The chair is the same colour as the furniture next to the sofa.
Furniture is either to the right or left of other furniture.
Only yellow furniture is next to the sofa.
The dining table is twice the size of the sofa.

Q14 The chair is yellow.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The red sofa is twice the size of a chair.
The yellow stool is placed to the right of the green dining table.
The chair is the same colour as the furniture next to the sofa.
Furniture is either to the right or left of other furniture.
Only yellow furniture is next to the sofa.
The dining table is twice the size of the sofa.

Q15 The chair is twice the size of the stool.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The red sofa is twice the size of a chair.
The yellow stool is placed to the right of the green dining table.
The chair is the same colour as the furniture next to the sofa.
Furniture is either to the right or left of other furniture.
Only yellow furniture is next to the sofa.
The dining table is twice the size of the sofa.

Q16 The desk is next to the sofa.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 Q17 If working hours and pay were not a problem for Julia, how
much more money would she make from the highest paid job
she could possibly take up compared with the lowest paid?

(A) I
(B) II
(C) III
(D) IV

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 Q18 If working hours and pay were not a problem for Julia, how
much more money would she make from the highest paid job
she could possibly take up compared with the lowest paid?

(A) £70
(B) £100
(C) £120
(D) £150
(E) £220

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 The people determine what is produced.
The government is made up of the people.
Production is determined by the free-market.
The free-market is made up of production.
Government is determined by the free-market.

Q19 What is produced is determined by the people.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The people determine what is produced.
The government is made up of the people.
Production is determined by the free-market.
The free-market is made up of production.
Government is determined by the free-market.

Q20 The free-market is determined by currencies.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The people determine what is produced.
The government is made up of the people.
Production is determined by the free-market.
The free-market is made up of production.
Government is determined by the free-market.

Q21 The government determines the production.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 The people determine what is produced.
The government is made up of the people.
Production is determined by the free-market.
The free-market is made up of production.
Government is determined by the free-market.

Q22 Production is made up of the people.

(A) True
(B) False
(C) Insufficient Information

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 End of test

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