Question - Statements Questions and Answers

Answer: D

According to the statement Swine Flu could spread to traffic police on conducting breath analysis, while choice (1) says only drunken people can pass on Swine Flu. It is correct.

The statement does not mention about the fatality of Swine Flu. Hence (2) is out of context.

As the traffic police stopped using breath analysis for foar of contacting swine flu, it can be concluded that they do not want to be infected. Hence, choice (3) is a conclusion.

As the traffic police check if the driver is drunk, it can be inferred that drunken driving is an offence.

Hence, choice (4) is an inference.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Without hard-work one is bound to fail.

The statement makes hard work a necessary condition for scoring well, so its absence removes the possibility - which is what the keyed option asserts, in the strong language this genre uses. The other three contradict the statement outright, denying the connection, denying that hard work leads to good results, or disparaging the hard worker.

Answer: D

From the statement it is clear that FICCI has raised the issue of food prices. From this it can be inferred that FICCI is concerned about food prices.

Hence choice (1) is an inference.

FICCI has approached Dr. Singh with the issue of food prices and Dr. Singh has assured them that he would take action. From this it can be concluded that Dr. Singh is responsible for control of food prices. Hence, choice (2) can be concluded from the given statement.

The statement does not refer to the capacity in which Dr. Singh has made the promise. He could be food minister or prime minister. Hence, choice (3) is out of context.

Dr. Singh has said that he will take all possible measures to bring down food prices. Hence, choice (4) is an implicit assumption.

Answer: D

Correct answer: A Good Samaritan who comes upon an accident will help the victims.

The statement is a universal about Good Samaritans, so it can be applied to any member of that class - which is exactly what the keyed conclusion does. What it cannot do is run the other way: helping does not by itself make someone a Good Samaritan, since the statement fixes only what Good Samaritans do, not who else might do the same.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows

A single humiliation tells us nothing about the teacher’s general feelings towards Vipin, who may have been treated so once and never again, and it tells us nothing about the boy’s conduct, which may have been the provocation or may have had nothing to do with it. Both conclusions supply a motive or a character judgement that the incident by itself cannot support.

Answer: C

Correct answer: There are cheap articles also in that shop.

“Most” means a majority but not all, so some articles are not expensive - which within the terms of the question means cheap. That is the whole inference. The statement says nothing about handmade articles in either direction, and it positively contradicts the claim that no cheap articles are available.

Answer: A

Correct answer: If only assumption I is inplicit

Offering accommodation to outside candidates alone makes sense only if local candidates do not need it, so the company assumes they have somewhere to stay. Assumption II reverses the whole notice: a condition addressed to outside candidates would be pointless if the company intended to select none, so it contradicts rather than underlies the statement.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of these

The three-quarters applies to the students taken together, not to the boys and the girls separately, so nothing can be said about what fraction of the boys plays. The statement gives no comparison of ability between the sexes and no indication that the game is compulsory. With no supportable conclusion among the first three, the fourth is the answer.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Only I follows

From the universal that all men are mortal it follows that every one of them must die, which is conclusion I - mortality means precisely that. Conclusion II asserts something quite different, that death is unpredictable in time and place. That may be true of the world, but it is not contained in the statement, which fixes only that death comes, not when or where.

Answer: A

Correct answer: The three convicts are found guilty.

The word convicted carries the conclusion within it: a court has found them guilty, and the sentence follows from that finding. The other options go further than the statement - asserting what the convicts personally did, passing judgement on their fitness to live in society, or supplying a foreign hand that no part of the statement mentions.