FREE UMAT Logical Reasoning Questions and Answers
If all cats are animals and some animals are pets, which of the following statements is logically true?
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Since some animals are pets and all cats are animals, it logically follows that some cats could be pets.
In a family of six, there are two parents, two sons, and two daughters. The father is twice as old as the oldest son, who is 18.
The mother is three years younger than the father. How old is the mother?
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The father is twice the age of the oldest son (2 x 18 = 36). The mother is three years younger than the father (36 - 3 = 33).
If it takes 5 machines 5 minutes to make 5 widgets,
how long would it take 100 machines to make 100 widgets?
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Each machine takes 5 minutes to make 1 widget. Therefore, 100 machines would still take 5 minutes to make 100 widgets, as the production rate is constant.
If every student in a classroom is either a sophomore or a junior and the number of juniors is twice the number of sophomores, which of the following statements is true?
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If the number of juniors is twice the number of sophomores, there are definitely more juniors than sophomores.
A man is looking at a photograph of someone. His friend asks who it is. The man replies, "Brothers and sisters, I have none. But that man's father is my father's son." Who is in the photograph?
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The man says "my father's son," which refers to himself. So, "that man's father" is him, and thus the person in the photograph is his son.