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Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

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Direction for [ Question No: 111 To 120 ] :

In each question below is given a statement followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then consider the two conclusions together and decide which of them logically follows beyond a reasonable doubt from the information given in the statement.

Give answer:

  • (A) If only conclusion I follows
  • (B) If only conclusion II follows
  • (C) If either I or II follows
  • (D) If neither I nor II follows and
  • (E) If both I and II follow.

111.

Statements: The percentage of the national income shared by the top 10 per cent of households in India is 35.

Conclusions:

1. When an economy grows fast, concentration of wealth in certain pockets of population takes place.

2. The national income is unevenly distributed in India

Answer: B

Nothing about the growth of economy is mentioned in the statement. So, I does not follow. Also, it is given that 35 per cent of national income is shared by 10 per cent of households. This indicates unequal distribution. So, II follows

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112.

Statements: Players who break various records in a fair way get special prizes. Player X broke the world record but was found to be under the influence of a prohibited drug.

Conclusions:

1. X will get the special prize.

2. X will not get the special prize

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows

The prize goes to those who break records in a fair way. X was under a prohibited drug, so his record was not fairly made and the condition fails - he will not get the prize. Only II follows.

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113.

Statements: Company X has marketed the product. Go ahead; purchase it if price and quality are your considerations.

Conclusions:

1. The product must be good in quality.

2. The price of the product must be reasonable

Answer: E

Correct answer: Both I and II follow

The advice is to buy the product if price and quality are what you care about - which recommends it on precisely those two counts. So both the quality and the price are being vouched for. Both follow.

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114.

Statements: Quality has a price tag. India is allocating lots of funds to education.

Conclusions:

1. Quality of education in India would improve soon.

2. Funding alone can enhance quality of education

Answer: A

According to the statement, funding is necessary to improve quality and India is allocating funds to education. This means that quality of education will improve in India. So, I follows. But funding alone is sufficient to enhance quality, is not true. So, II does not follow.

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115.

Statements: Although we have rating agencies like Crisil, ICRA, there is demand to have a separate rating agency for IT companies to protect investors.

Conclusions:

1. Assessment of financial worth of IT companies calls for separate set of skills, insight and competencies.

2. Now the investors investing in IT companies will get protection of their investment.

Answer: A

The need for separate rating agency for IT companies clearly indicates that such assessment requires a separate set of skills. So, I follows. However, the statement indicates only the need or demand and neither the future course of action nor its after-effects can be judged. So, II does not follow

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116.

Statements: The standard of education in private schools is much better than Municipal and Zila Parishad-run schools.

Conclusions:

1. The Municipal and Zila Parishad should make serious efforts to improve standard of their schools.

2. All Municipal and Zila Parishad schools should be closed immediately

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only conclusion I follows

If the private schools are much better, the obvious response is for the Municipal and Zila Parishad authorities to raise their own standard, which is conclusion I. Conclusion II is far too drastic: closing the schools would leave their pupils with nowhere to go. Only I follows.

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117.

Statements: All the organised persons find time for rest. Sunita, in spite of her very busy schedule, finds time for rest.

Conclusions:

1. Sunita is an organised person.

2. Sunita is an industrious person.

Answer: E

Correct answer: Both I and II follow

Sunita finds time for rest, which is the mark the statement gives of an organised person, so conclusion I is drawn; and her “very busy schedule” is what supports conclusion II, that she is industrious. Both follow.

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118.

Statements: Domestic demand has been increasing faster than the production of indigenous crude oil.

Conclusions:

1. Crude oil must be imported.

2. Domestic demand should be reduced

Answer: C

Correct answer: Either I or II follows

Demand is outrunning what the country produces, and a gap of that kind can be closed in only one of two ways - buy the difference from abroad, or bring demand down. One or the other must happen, but the statement does not say which. Either I or II follows.

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119.

Statements: He stressed the need to stop the present examination system and its replacement by other methods which would measure the real merit of the students.

Conclusions:

1. Examinations should be abolished.

2. The present examination system does not measure the real merit of the students

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows

He wants the present system replaced by methods that would measure real merit - which implies the present one does not, and that is conclusion II. Conclusion I misreads him: he asks for a better examination, not for examinations to be abolished altogether. Only II follows.

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120.

Statements: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Conclusions:

1. Fashion designers do not understand the public mind very well.

2. The public by and large is highly susceptible to novelty

Answer: B

Correct answer: Only conclusion II follows

If fashion has to be altered every six months, it is because people will not stay with the same thing for long - that is conclusion II, the public’s appetite for novelty. Conclusion I blames the designers’ grasp of the public mind, whereas the remark suggests they read it only too well. Only II follows.

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