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- Question
- A police officer stationed along the route of a parade has been ordered not to allow cars to cross the route while the parade is in progress. An ambulance driver on an emergency run attempts to drive an ambulance across the route while the parade is passing. Under these circumstances, the officer should
Options- A. Ask the driver to wait while the officer calls headquarters and obtains a decision.
- B. Stop the parade long enough to permit the ambulance to cross the street.
- C. Direct the ambulance driver to the shortest detour available, which will add at least ten minutes to the run.
- D. Hold up the ambulance in accordance with the order.
- Correct Answer
- Stop the parade long enough to permit the ambulance to cross the street.
ExplanationWithout any knowledge of police rules, common sense dictates that saving lives is the number one priority. An ambulance on an emergency run is on a mission to save a life. Lifesaving takes precedence over the desire for an uninterrupted parade, despite the officer's prior orders. So ans is B.
- 1. Statement:
"It is tall claims that our state X is progressing on industrial front. Rising unemployment by leaps and bounds is enough to collaborate it." - View of a politician of state X
Assumptions:
I. If the state were progressing on the industrial front it should have been reflected in the unemployment situation.
II. Progress on industrial front reduces financial crunch.
Options- A. if only assumption I is implicit.
- B. if only assumption II is implicit.
- C. if either I or II is implicit.
- D. if neither I nor II is implicit. Discuss
- 2. Statement:
All chairs are tables. All tables are cushions. Some cushions are trolleys. All trolleys are lamps.
Conclusions:
I. Some lamps are tables.
II. Some trolleys are chairs.
III. Some cushions are lamps.
IV. All chairs are cushions.
Options- A. Only I follows
- B. Only III and IV follow
- C. Only either II or II follows
- D. All follows Discuss
- 3. Statements:
(a) All clerks are typists.
(b) Some typists are stenos.
Conclusions:
I. Some stenos are clerks.
II. No steno is a clerk.
III. All typists are clerks.
IV. All clerks are stenos.
Options- A. All the conclusions follow
- B. None of conclusions follow
- C. Either I or II follows
- D. Only IV follows Discuss
- 4. Statements:
(a) Most players are men.
(b) Some men are singers.
Conclusions:
I. Some singers are men.
II. Some players are singers.
Options- A. Only conclusion I follows
- B. Only conclusion II follows.
- C. Neither conclusion I or II follows
- D. Both conclusions I and II follow Discuss
- 5. While sitting in a park, you observe that a smart young man comes to the place on a scooter, leaves it there and goes away with someone else on a motorbike. You would
Options- A. call back the person
- B. remain engaged in your enjoyment
- C. chase the person
- D. inform the police at the nearby booth Discuss
- 6. a__ba__b__b__a__b
Options- A. .abaab
- B. .abbab
- C. .aabba
- D. .bbabb Discuss
- 7. Find the odd one out:
Options- A. 11
- B. 13
- C. 15
- D. 17 Discuss
- 8. First bunch of bananas has (1/4) again as many bananas as a second bunch. If the second bunch has 3 bananas less than the first bunch, then the number of bananas in the first bunch is
Options- A. 9
- B. 10
- C. 12
- D. 15 Discuss
- 9. NA
Options- A. 39
- B. 83
- C. 78
- D. 52 Discuss
- 10. 149 : 238 : : 159 :?
Options- A. 169
- B. 248
- C. 261
- D. 268 Discuss
More questions
Correct Answer: if only assumption I is implicit.
Explanation:
Here II is irrelevant. Hence, II is not Implicit. But I must have been assumed by the politician; otherwise how can the status of industrial progress be related with unemployment?
Correct Answer: Only III and IV follow
Explanation:
Some cushions are trolleys + All trolleys are lamps = I + A = I = Some cushions are lamps Hence III follows. All chairs are tables + All tables are cushions = A + A = A = All chairs are cushions Hence IV follows All tables are cushions + Some cushions are trolleys = A + I = No conclusion Hence I does not follow. All chairs are cushions + Some cushions are trolleys = A + I = No conclusion Hence II does not follow.
Correct Answer: Either I or II follows
Explanation:
First Premise is Universal Affirmative (A-type).
Second Premise is Particular Affirmative (I-type).
All clerks are typists. ? Some typists are stenos.
A + I ?No Conclusion
Conclusions I and II form Complementary Pair. Therefore, either I or II follows.
Correct Answer: Only conclusion I follows
Explanation:
The first Premise is Universal Affirmative (A-type).
The second Premise is Particular Affirmative (I-type).
Most players are men. ? Some man are singers.
A + I ? No Conclusion
Conclusion I is Converse of the second statement.
Correct Answer: inform the police at the nearby booth
Explanation:
The given situation demands a prompt action as there may be some bomb or some other illegal things in the scooter which he has left there chasing the person on your own may be risky. So, the correct action in this situation is to inform the police at the nearby booth.
Correct Answer: .bbabb
Explanation:
the pattern is ...abb
Correct Answer: 15
Explanation:
All numbers are prime numbers except 15.
Correct Answer: 15
Explanation:
Correct Answer: 83
Explanation:
83 is the only number which is prime, while others are composite numbers.
Correct Answer: 248
Explanation:
relationship is a : (a + 89)
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