Question - Statements Questions and Answers

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.

Answer: C

The statement is referring to average. Hence, I is not implicit. Getting bored is given as the reason for quitting the job. Hence, II is implicit. The statement does not refer to the star performer's attitude towards an enriched job. Hence, III is not implicit.

Only, II is implicit.

Answer: A

Correct answer: If only assumption I is inplicit

To have acknowledged services rendered by voluntary agencies since the First Five-Year Plan is to imply that those agencies were already at work - services cannot be acknowledged before they exist. Assumption II claims a hand in designing the Plan itself, which is a far more specific role than being acknowledged in it, and nothing in the statement suggests it.

Answer: B

There is no clear information given regarding the demand in India. I is not a conclusion. From the statement, A-star will be in less than 40 months it can be concluded that 40 months ago its first car launched. 40 months means 3 years and 4 months. Conclusion II follows.

Only II follows.

Answer: D

The statement tells us that magazines publish special supplements whenever there are special events / celebrations and that readers should reserve their copies in advance. This tells us that these supplements have a huge demand in the market which could be ascribed to their covering the event every exhaustively. This is exactly what conclusions I and II state, hence both follow.

Answer: B

Correct answer: If only assumption II is inplicit

To say that a book is for those interested in a subject is to assume that a book finds its readership among people already drawn to its subject - which is the general assumption II states. Assumption I is about readers interested in the author rather than the subject, a quite different motive that the sentence never raises.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only I follows

If a high IQ is important to be a scientist, then the student of average ability is not well placed for that career, which is the point conclusion I makes. Conclusion II runs the implication backwards and strengthens it into a certainty: being necessary for the career is quite different from guaranteeing that everyone who has the quality will take it up.