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Number Analogy
Understanding Number Analogy is a crucial step in solving questions on reasoning ability. The reasoning ability is checked mainly by the questions related to Number Analogy. The candidates are asked to identify and point out relationships, similarities or differences, and dissimilarities in a series or between groups of numbers. In the following section, we will try and get acquainted with the concept of analogies.
Number Analogy of the First Kind
We shall see how to identify and use this concept to solve some questions. Broadly speaking, the Number analogy based questions may be of two types:
Find a missing number from a given analogy.
Find a set of numbers that are related to the same rule as the one given.
If you read newspapers you will find this section very very easy. In these kinds of questions, in bank exams, you will be asked to guess the missing number or complete a series from a given series of numbers. The tricks or the time savers here are to look for the common rules. Check for relations like “is a factor of”, “is a multiple of”, “is a root of”, “is a square of”, or a combination of these rules. Let us again see this with the help of an example: