Question - Statements Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Correct answer: Only I follows

If no city can supply its own needs, then producing everything a city requires within it is not achievable - conclusion I simply restates the given in other words. Conclusion II is about the behaviour of citizens, which the statement never touches; self-sufficiency is a matter of what a city produces, not of how active its people are.

Answer: B

In this the author has not clearly stated whether there is a need to channelize anger in to energy or not. So, I is irrelevant.

In the statement II it is given that channelizing anger to energy is a skill. Here the assumption of the author is that only those people who have the skill can channelize anger to energy.

Only II is implicit.

Answer: B

The statement tells us that in the past, pigeons were used to send mail and connects with present day Orissa, where it is still being used by the police department areas. This could be because those areas are not easily accessible to the postal department, or because of the remoteness of the area, sending mails through pigeon is more convenient. It could also be that the police department finds pigeon mails more safe and secure when compared to other ways of sending mail. All in all we can conclude that pigeon mail is still being used because it is superior in some aspects to other ways of sending mail. This is exactly what II states, hence it follows. Just because pigeons are being used in some areas, we cannot conclude that the postal department has not made progress in the last century. Hence I does not follow.

Answer: B

Correct answer: If only assumption II is inplicit

Any advice presupposes that it can be acted on, so telling someone to win people over with a warm smile assumes such a smile at strangers is possible. Assumption I makes winning new people over a necessity, which is stronger than the statement, which offers a means to an end without arguing that the end must be pursued.

Answer: B

The statement is talking about only cotton farmers. In this context anything said about any other farmer cannot be considered as an assumption. Hence, (I) is not an assumption. (II) is a definite assumption because an evident relationship is established between cotton and the lack of rains.

Answer: A

Correct answer: Some painters are creative persons.

If many creative people become painters, then at least some painters are creative - a converse that is safe because it is limited to “some”. The other three all overreach: “many” does not mean every creative person becomes a painter, it says nothing about whether creativity is necessary for art, and it certainly does not imply that little creativity is needed.

Answer: A

As in the statement the author says that there are people who are looking for good people to grow with, that means people want to grow. Hence, I is implicit.

According to the statement, people found these people to be good, but not the author by himself. Hence, II is not implicit.

Answer: D

Here, the given statement mentions that trekking improves health.
But this does not mean that all healthy people go for treks, so, I does not follow.

Similarly, people may prefer other activities such as yoga, running or swimming etc to improve their health. Trekking alone may not be sufficient for each and everyone.

None of them follow here, the correct option is D.

Answer: C

The given statement tells us that 80% of the employees of X Ltd earn above Rs. 5000 per month. It also tells us that 70% of the employees work as supervisors. From this we know that 20% of the employees earn Rs. 5000 or less. If this 20% are all supervisors then we can say that at least 50% of the supervisors earn more than Rs. 5000 per month. If none of these 20% employees are supervisors, it means that all the supervisors earn more than Rs. 5000 per month. Thus we can say that either 100% of the supervisors earn more than Rs. 5000, or conversely less than 100% of the supervisors earn more than Rs. 5000. This is exactly what conclusions I and II state, but we know that only one of them is definitely true. Hence, either I or II follows, but not both.

Answer: D

Here in the statement the speaker stated about some people who waste food, hence I is implicit. Again the speaker is asking the people who waste food to feel ashamed, assuming that they do not feel ashamed. II is implicit.

Only I and II are implicit.