Korn Ferry Logical Reasoning Flashcards
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A Venn diagram shows Group X (engineers) and Group Y (project managers). The overlap contains 8 people. Group X has 20 total, Group Y has 15 total. How many people are in X or Y but not both?
Answer: 27
(20 − 8) + (15 − 8) = 12 + 15 = 27 people are in exactly one of the two groups.
The pattern: A1, C3, E5, G7, ___. What comes next?
Answer: I9
Letters skip one (A, C, E, G, I) and numbers increase by 2 (1, 3, 5, 7, 9), giving I9.
Which of the following is the strongest assumption underlying: 'We should hire more staff because customer wait times are too long'?
Answer: Additional staff will reduce customer wait times.
The conclusion that hiring more staff solves wait times depends on the assumption that more staff directly reduces those times.
If 'some analysts are optimistic' and 'all optimistic people invest in growth stocks,' what can be concluded?
Answer: Some analysts invest in growth stocks.
The optimistic analysts (a subset of analysts) must invest in growth stocks, so 'some analysts' invest in growth stocks.
A logic grid: Three candidates scored High, Medium, or Low. Candidate 1 did not score Low. Candidate 2 scored higher than Candidate 3. Candidate 3 scored Low. What did Candidate 1 score?
Answer: Medium or High
Candidate 3 scored Low; Candidate 2 scored higher than Low (so Medium or High); Candidate 1 did not score Low, leaving Medium or High.
Which best describes an 'inductive' reasoning approach?
Answer: Forming a general rule from specific observations.
Inductive reasoning moves from specific cases to a broader generalization, unlike deductive reasoning which moves from general to specific.
A project has tasks P, Q, R. P must finish before Q starts. Q must finish before R starts. P takes 4 days, Q takes 3 days, R takes 5 days. What is the minimum project duration?
Answer: 12 days
Tasks are fully sequential, so total = 4 + 3 + 5 = 12 days.