Statement: Considering the tickets sold during the last seven days, the circus authorities decided to continue the show for another fortnight which includes two weekends.
Assumptions:
People may not turn up on weekdays.
The average number of people who will be visiting circus will be more or less same as that of the last seven days.
There may not be enough response at other places.
Options
A. All are implicit
B. None is implicit
C. Only II is implicit
D. Only I and II are implicit
E. None of these
Correct Answer
Only II is implicit
Explanation
Clearly, the fortnight would include weekdays also. So, I is not implicit. Also, the authorities decided to continue the show with the hope that people would visit the circus in the same numbers as they had done in the last seven days. So, II is implicit. III is vague and so is not implicit.
More questions
1. All guilty politicians were arrested. Kishan and Chander were among those arrested.
Clearly, capability is an essential criteria for a profession and reservation cannot ensure capable workers. So, neither I nor III holds strong. However, making one caste more privileged than the other through reservations would hinder the objectives of a classless society. So, argument II holds strong.
3. Statement: 'Guests should be provided lunch.' - A tells B.
Clearly, mechanization would speed up the work and increase the production. So, argument I is strong enough. Argument II is vague because mechanization will only eliminate wasteful employment, not create unemployment.
This is an alternating subtraction series with the interpolation of a random number, 5, as every third number. In the subtraction series, 3 is subtracted, then 4, then 3, and so on.
7. Look at this series: (1/9), (1/3), 1, ____ , 9, ... What number should fill the blank?
This is a multiplication series; each number is 3 times the previous number.
8. Statements: The serious accident in which a person was run down by a car yesterday had again focused attention on the most unsatisfactory state of roads.
Conclusions:
The accident that occurred was fatal.
Several accidents have so far taken place because of unsatisfactory state of roads.
Since the accident has caused concern, it must be fatal. So, I follows. The use of the word 'again' in the statement justifies the fact mentioned in II. So, II also follows.
9. Statement: Should there be reservation in Government jobs for candidates from single child family?
Arguments:
No. This is not advisable as the jobs should be offered to only deserving candidates without any reservation for a particular group.
Yes. This will help reduce the growing population in India as the parents will be encouraged to adopt single child norm.
The Government has already made provisions for reservation of jobs for the economically backward sections, which is a must. So, abolishing the practice of reservation altogether has no meaning. Thus, argument I is vague. Also, more reservations would lead to non-recruitment of many more deserving candidates. Besides, such a reservation, if implemented, will cater to the job requirements of only a small section of population and not a major part of it. So, argument II also does not hold strong.
10. Statement: Whenever you have any doubt on this subject, you may refer to the book by Enn and Enn.
The recommendation of the book by Enn and Enn implies that it is available. So, I is implicit. Also, the book has been referred to as a good one, but this does not mean that no other books are available on the subject. So, II is not implicit.