Statement and Assumption problems
- 1. Statement:
Owing to urgent repair on a main line from the Wazirabad waterworks, water supply will be at low pressure on Thursday.
Assumptions:
I. Repair impedes water supply.
II. Water can be had even on low pressure.
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
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
I is implicit because of the cause-effect relationship. II is also implicit because a thing cannot happen unless it is possible.
- 2. Statement:
Another strange thing I noticed last night was that the lights of the drawing room were on.
Assumptions:
I. A thief must have come in.
II. Usually, the drawing room lights are off at night.
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
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
I is not an assumption. It is an inference being drawn out of the "strange thing". But assumption II is implicit. It is this departure from the usual that makes "last night" strange.
- 3. Statement:
"Women should be given vocational training in their work." - An advice
Assumptions:
I. Vocational training may increase efficiency of an individual.
II. Women are likely to get benefited from vocational training.
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
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
Why does the person gives an advice to provide vocational training to women in work ? There must be a positive and constructive role of the training. Hence I is implicit. II is also implicit. Otherwise the training will be useless.
- 4. Statement:
"People who swindle crores of taxpayers' money go scot- free while petty thieves, who probably rob out of desperation, are given third-degree punishment and are often victims of custodial deaths."- View of Mr X
Assumptions:
I. All person should be equal before law.
II. Punishment should be given to the culprit according to the degree of the infringement committed by the culprit.
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
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The view of the speaker is in the form of a critic. He feels against the discrimination in punishment given to the swindlers and petty thieves. Hence, he must be assuming I and II also.
- 5. Statement:
"Look under your seat. There could be a bomb. Raise alarm. Earn reward." - A written instruction to passengers of a bus
Assumptions:
I. Passengers will read the instruction and may abide by it.
II. Passengers' participation may ensure more security.
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
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
The purpose to get help from the instruction to ensure security can't be fulfilled unless the instruction is read by the passengers. Hence, both I and II are implicit.
- 6. Statement:
In order to discipline the auto drivers and provide relief lakhs of passengers, the Transport Minister has announced that strong action would be taken against drivers who do not display the magnified driver's licence prominently on the windscreen of their vehicle after April 1.
Assumptions:
I. When the measure comes into force, it would no longer be possible for the autorickshaw drivers to fool the owners in any way.
II. The measure would facilitate easy identification of the offenders.
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
Correct Answer: if only assumption II is implicit.
Explanation:
if only assumption II is implicit.
- 7. Statement:
The Government X has proposed to create two new service cadres of Rural Development Service and Rural Engineering Service to strengthen the Panchayati Raj model.
Assumptions:
I. New cadres may help implement the Government's schemes for empowerment of rural communities.
II. There may be some practical difficulties in implementation of various schemes launched by the Government X.
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
Correct Answer: if only assumption I is implicit.
Explanation:
Name of the given service cadres implies that these cadres may help in upliftment of the living condition of rural people. Now, the government proposition implies that the government must be assuming I.
- 8. Statement:
"Policies and programmes and seminars cannot change the women's status. There is a greater need for attitudinal change in the society towards working women."- View of Mr X
Assumptions:
I. It is possible to make change in the attitude of the society towards working women.
II. Status of the working women is not satisfactory.
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
Correct Answer:
Explanation:
I is implicit because it make no sense to talk of something without the existence of its possibility. II is implicit ; that is why the speaker suggests tools to make change in the women's status.
- 9. Statement:
"Government of state X's step, according to which it has been decided to provide cooked meal to the students of all primary school of the states, is not a proper and judicious step." - Criticism by a person
Assumptions:
I. Students may hesitate to eat the cooked meal provided by the Government.
II. The cooked meal served to the students may be hazardous for the health of students.
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
Correct Answer: if neither I nor II is implicit.
Explanation:
We can not say what ground the critic assumes on the basis of which be terms it "not a proper and judicious step".
- 10. Statement:
"Although no war was witnessed during the tenure of prime ministership of Mr X, a large number of top bravery medals were conferred upon many cops in the name of curbing terrorism and eliminating terrorists of different organisations belonging to our own states." - View of a citizen
Assumptions:
I. It is disgraceful of cops to name the act of killing of terrorists of our own country as an act of bravery.
II. A war is less harmful for a country than menace of terrorism.
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
Correct Answer: if neither I nor II is implicit.
Explanation:
I is not valid because we don't know whether the contrast expressed in the view is critical or merely a statement of fact. II, if at all an assumption,can only be false.
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