Question - Statements Questions and Answers

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: C

Correct answer: No museum is without display pieces.

This is the same statement turned around: if every museum displays interesting pieces, then none is without them. The reformulation is safe because it makes no new claim. The others do - that interesting pieces are found nowhere else, that museums exist only for artefacts, or anything at all about visitor numbers, on which the statement is silent.

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: 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: C

Correct answer: This is a good book.

The sentence puts this book in the class of things that help, and it does so by way of the rule that good books help - the clause “and so will this one” carries the implication that the book belongs to that class. The statement makes no comparison with other books, says nothing about bad ones, and directly contradicts the suggestion that some good books do not help.

Answer: D

Correct answer: There may be deception in glittering things.

The proverb warns that appearance and value do not always agree: something may glitter and still not be gold. That is a caution about deception, and the keyed conclusion states it with the same tentativeness. The others introduce specific claims about non-metals, gems and diamonds on which the proverb is entirely silent.

Answer: C

Correct answer: The X company’s market is monopolistic.

The two statements work together. A market with competition would be an oligopoly; here a single company is the sole provider, so there is no competition and the market is a monopoly by definition. Nothing is said about ownership or conduct, so the options describing the company as corrupt or publicly owned have no support, and the last directly contradicts the second statement.

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: A poor man can earn wealth if he has ability.

To call ability the poor man’s wealth is to say that it is what he has to trade on, and therefore his route to acquiring wealth of the ordinary kind. The statement says nothing about rich men in either direction, and nothing about poor men who lack ability, so the other three options all supply information the saying does not contain.

Answer: B

As per the given statement, there is no way to identify whether the writer is intelligent or not. I does not follow.

Here statement II correctly conveys what the given statement means.

So, only II follows.