APCAT - Alberta Police Cognitive Ability Pattern Recognition and Spatial Reasoning Questions and Answers Flashcards
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What number comes next: 81, 27, 9, 3, ?
Answer: 1
Each term is divided by 3, so 3 ÷ 3 = 1.
What number comes next: 2, 4, 12, 48, 240, ?
Answer: 1440
The multipliers rise by one each step (×2, ×3, ×4, ×5, ×6), so 240 × 6 = 1440.
You are facing north, turn 90 degrees right, then turn 180 degrees left. Which way are you facing?
Answer: West
Right from north is east; turning 180 degrees from east leaves you facing west.
What shape is seen when an upright solid cylinder is viewed directly from above?
Answer: Circle
The top view of an upright cylinder is its circular end face.
On a standard die, opposite faces sum to 7. Which number is opposite the 2?
Answer: 5
Since opposite faces total 7, the face opposite 2 is 5.
What letter comes next: Z, X, V, T, R, ?
Answer: P
The series moves back two letters each time, so after R comes P.
An arrow points up and rotates 90 degrees clockwise each step. Where does it point after 3 steps?
Answer: Left
Clockwise from up gives right, down, then left after three steps.
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