NYC Civil Service Logical and Deductive Reasoning Questions and Answers Flashcards
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Four city employees — Kim, Lee, Patel, and Cruz — are assigned to four different bureaus: Finance, HR, IT, and Legal. Kim is not in Finance or IT. Lee is in HR. Patel is not in Legal. Which bureau is Kim assigned to?
Answer: Legal
Lee is in HR, ruling it out for Kim; Kim is excluded from Finance and IT, so Kim must be in Legal.
A NYC civil service exam has 100 questions. A candidate answers 72 correctly, leaves 8 blank, and gets the rest wrong. How many questions did the candidate answer incorrectly?
Answer: 20
100 − 72 correct − 8 blank = 20 incorrect answers.
Which word does NOT belong with the others: Ordinance, Statute, Regulation, Petition?
Answer: Petition
Ordinance, Statute, and Regulation are all types of laws or rules, while a Petition is a formal request.
A supervisor states: 'Only employees with a passing score may attend the training.' Officer Chen did not attend the training. What can be concluded?
Answer: Officer Chen did not receive a passing score
If only passing employees may attend and Chen did not attend, Chen must not have a passing score (by contrapositive).
Examine the analogy: Precinct is to Police Officer as _____ is to Firefighter.
Answer: Firehouse
A precinct is where police officers are based, just as a firehouse is the home base for firefighters.
A city agency processes 240 applications per day with 6 clerks. If 2 clerks are absent, how many applications can the remaining clerks process per day at the same rate?
Answer: 160
Each clerk processes 240÷6=40 applications; 4 remaining clerks process 4×40=160 applications.