Question - Statements Questions and Answers

Answer: B

Correct answer: It is the responsibility of Dr. Singh to control the food prices.

A person gives an assurance about a matter only where it falls within his authority to act, so his undertaking to take every possible action places the matter in his charge. The alternative asserts that prices will certainly come down, which is a prediction about the outcome; an assurance of effort is not a guarantee of result, and the statement promises the first, not the second.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Neither I nor II follows

The slogan is an advertisement for one brand of colours. Conclusion I denies that catchy slogans attract people, which would make the advertisement pointless and is the reverse of what its existence suggests. Conclusion II names water colours specifically, a distinction the slogan never draws. Neither has any basis in what was said.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Amar is a celebrity.

The phrase “celebrities like Amar” presupposes that Amar belongs to the class of celebrities; that presupposition is what can be drawn out, and nothing more. Whether Amar is a liar is left open, since the statement says only most. The remaining options invert the relation, making truthfulness disqualify a person from celebrity or lying a route into it.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Only one man in the village married twice.

Two facts combine: one man has two wives, and no one else does. Together they fix the number at exactly one. The statement says nothing about the rest of the village - whether the other men have one wife, or none, or are unmarried - so the three options that describe them all go beyond what was given.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only I follows

To say fortune favours the bold is to make boldness - the willingness to take a risk - the condition of success, which is what conclusion I asserts. Conclusion II converts that into an absolute denial for the timid. The saying is about what fortune favours, not about what it forbids, so the stronger claim goes beyond it.

Answer: B

The given statement is an opinion which A tells B and hence we cannot determine whether B wants to buy coffee or not. But it is sure that according to A, Nescafe is a good coffee. Thus, assumption I is not implicit whereas II is implicit.

Answer: D

The statement tells us that the Vedas contain wisdom and that a German scholar called Max Mueller published the first scholarly translation of it. This statement gives us no clue as to who wrote the Vedas or in what language it was writers, hence we cannot conclude anything about these two aspects. However, conclusions I and II conclude that the Germans discovered wisdom and that the Vedas are in German, which is not factually supported by the given statement. Hence, both do not follow.

Answer: B

The statement does not refer to what the farmers want. It only states the action taken by the government. Hence, choice (1) is out of context.

The reason behind the government's decision to not declare many areas drought hit is to let the farmers avail loans. From this it is clear that the government is assuming that there is a necessity for the farmers to avail loans.Hence, choice (2) is an implicit assumption.

The government does not want the farmers to be denied loans. As a result the government is not declaring many areas as drought hit. From this it can be inferred that the farmers do not get loans, once their area is declared drought hit.

Hence, choice (3) is an inference.

The statement has no reference to the farmers who are in the areas that are not drought hit. Hence, choice (4) is out of context.

Answer: A

Correct answer: All floors of buildings with multiple floors may be reached in lifts.

The word to watch is may. The statement guarantees a lift in any building of more than three floors, so where a lift exists it serves the floors - and the keyed conclusion claims only a possibility, which is why it survives. The others assert certainties the statement does not support: buildings of three floors or fewer need no lift, so not all buildings have one, and nothing restricts lifts to the upper floors.

Answer: A

The statement tells us about a policy decision of government 'X' which has announced several concessions and new attractive package tours of foreign visitors. Obviously this implies that country 'X' is serious about increasing the number of people who visit the country, but again we are not sure of the efficacy of this new policy or whether it would actually serve the intended purpose - as such no conclusion could be drawn on this aspect. Conclusion II which predicts that more people will visit the country 'X' contravenes the above discussed issue of the efficacy of the policy. Hence, it is not a valid conclusion. Conclusion I tells us about the seriousness of country 'X' in attracting foreign visitors and it definitely follows.