ibps-so 2018 · Question 70 of 356

Five packets of records were carried up from the basement of a branch and left one upon another in a corner of the record room, and the clerk who must retrieve the topmost of them has been given no more than the two notes set out below. Question : Five packets P, Q, R, S and T are placed one above another so as to form a single stack of ve. Which one of the ve packets is placed at the top of the stack? Statements : I. Packet R is placed immediately above packet Q, and packet T is placed immediately below packet S. II. Packet P is placed above every one of the other four packets.

1. AThe data in statement I alone are su cient to answer the question, while the data in statement II alone are not su cient to answer the question
2. BThe data in statement II alone are su cient to answer the question, while the data in statement I alone are not su cient to answer the questionCorrect
3. CThe data either in statement I alone or in statement II alone are su cient to answer the question
4. DThe data in both the statements I and II together are not su cient to answer the question
5. EThe data in both the statements I and II together are necessary to answer the question Directions (Q6–Q10) : The district health authority lays before its governing council, at the close of every quarter, an abstract of the work done at the ve hospitals maintained by it, so that the council may judge how the beds, the operation theatres and the nursing establishment ought to be distributed between them in the quarter to come. The abstract for the quarter last closed is reproduced below. Study the table given below with care and answer the questions that follow it. The table sets out, for each of the ve hospitals, the total number of patients admitted during the quarter, the proportion of that number which consisted of day-care patients, that is of patients who were discharged upon the day of admission itself, and the ratio in which the remaining patients, who were retained as in-patients, were divided between males and females. Hospital Hospital H₁ Hospital H₂ Hospital H₃ Hospital H₄ Hospital H₅ Total number of Day-care patients, as a percentage of Male : female among the patients admitted the patients admitted in-patients 1440 25% 5:4 1800 30% 4:5 2100 40% 7:5 1600 45% 6:5 2400 35% 8:7