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Question 121

Choose the set in which the third statement is a logical conclusion of the first two.
A. Some Xs are Ps. Some Ps are Ys. Some Xs are Ys.
B. All Sonas are bright. Some bright are crazy. Some Sonas are crazy.
C. No faith is strong. Only strong have biceps. No faith has biceps.
D. All men are weak. Some weak are strong. Some strong are weak.

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Solution

Statement A: There need not be an intersection between the sets Xs and Ys.

Statement B: There need not be an intersection between the sets Sonas and Crazy.

Statement D: Third statement follows only from the second statement.

The third statement in C follows from its first two statements.

Option b) is the correct answer.

Question 122

Choose the set in which the third statement is a logical conclusion of the first two.
A. Some icicles are cycles. All cycles are men. Some icicles are men.
B. All girls are teeth. No teeth is yellow. No girls are yellow.
C. No hand is foot. Some foot are heads. Some hands are heads.
D. Every man has a wife. All wives are devoted. No devoted has a husband.

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Solution

Statement A: Since all cycles are men and some iciles are cycles, it follows that some iciles are definitely men.

Statement B: Girls is a subset of Teeth. There is no intersection between the sets Teeth and Yellow. So, there is no intersection between the sets Girls and Yellow.

The third sentences in C and D need not necessarily follow from the respective first two statements. Option b) is the correct answer.

Question 123

Choose the set in which the third statement is a logical conclusion of the first two.
A. No sun is not white. All moon is sun. All moon is white.
B. All windows are open. No open space is allocated. All window is closed space.
C. No German can fire. All Americans bombard. Both, Germans and Americans can fight.
D. No X is Z. No Z is Y. No X is Y.

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Solution

Statement A: No sun is not white => All Sun is white. So, Sun is a subset of white. All moon is sun => Moon is a subset of Sun. So moon is a subset of white.

In none of the other three statements do the third sentences follow from the respective first two statements.

Option a) is the correct answer.

Question 124

Choose the set in which the third statement is a logical conclusion of the first two.

A. All Ts are square. All squares are rectangular. All Ts are rectangular.

B. Some fat are elongated. Some elongated things are huge. Some fat are huge.

C. Idiots are bumblers. Bumblers fumble. Idiots fumble.

D. Water is good for health. Health foods are rare. Water is rare.

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Solution

In both A and C the third statement is logically concuded. The reasoning is if A = B, B = C then A = C.

Similarly T's = Square, Square = Rectangle then T's = Rectangle.

Idiots = Bumblers, Bumblers = Fumble then Idiots = Fumble

Question 125

Efficiency is all right in its place, in the shop, the factory, the store. The trouble with efficiency is that it wants to rule our play as well as our work; it won't be content to reign in the shop, it follows us home. It can be inferred from the above passage that

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Solution

The author is of the opinion that one cannot limit efficiency to just work. It tends to affect a person's non-work life as well. In other words, efficiency can become all-pervading. Option a) is the correct answer.

Question 126

In order to ease the traffic congestion, the transport planners decided to have a sophisticated system of elevated monorail travel in the city. However, it was pointed out by somebody that a metro rail system would be a more effective solution to the traffic problem. The plan was thus stalled. Moreover, since a budget had not been drawn up for the project, it was deemed fit to stall the work of the monorail for some time. In the meanwhile, the traffic planners of the city decided to build an efficient system of subways and flyovers in the city with the aim of easing the same problem. At the instant when the planners were preparing to award the contracts to the concerned parties, the transport planners came up with the contention that the subways interfered with the site of a pillar of the monorail system. The traffic planners had to give up the idea and think of other possible solutions.

Which of the following can we infer from the above passage?

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Solution

Option A cannot be inferred as it is nowhere mentioned. Option B is not necessarily true. The two groups may not agree to each others plans even if they are friendly with each other. Thus, just from the fact that they opposed each others plans we cannot infer that there is contention between the two groups. From the paragraph, we can infer that neither of the two groups can proceed i.e. neither the traffic planners nor the transport planners can move ahead with any plan. Thus, both the parties are dead-locked. Hence, we can infer option C.

Question 127

The company encourages its managers to interact regularly, without a pre-set agenda, to discuss issues concerning the company and society. This idea has been borrowed from the ancient Indian concept of religious congregation, called satsang. Designations are forgotten during these meetings; hence, it is not uncommon in these meetings to find a sales engineer questioning the CEO on some corporate policy or his knowledge of customers. Based on the information provided in the above passage, it can be inferred that

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Solution

From the argument, we understand the following points: 1. The company is trying to instill the spirit of dialogue in its employees. 2. This dialogue is agnostic of position or title of the employee.

So, we can infer that the company believes in fostering the spirit of dialogue without degenerating it into a positioning based debate. Option B is the correct answer.

In option C, there is an assumption that the company had some inter-personal problems in the past. However, there is no such information in the passage from which we can infer the assumption. Also, we have to choose the answer according to the contents of the given paragraph. Therefore, option C is incorrect.

Question 128

From Cochin to Shimla, the new culture vultures are tearing down acres of India's architectural treasures. Ancestral owners are often fobbed off with a few hundred rupees for an exquisitely carved door or window, which fetches fifty times that much from foreign dealers, and yet more from the drawing room sophisticates of Europe and the US. The reason for such shameless rape of the Indian architectural wealth can perhaps, not wrongly, be attributed to the unfortunate blend of activist disunity and the local indifference. It can be inferred from the above passage that

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Solution

Option b) is incorrect because it says 'only' India is not proud of its culture, which is incorrect.

Option c) is incorrect because we cannot infer if 'most' Indian families have sold off their heirlooms.

Option d) is incorrect because the market is US and Europe and not India. India is the souce.

Option a) can be inferred.

Question 129

Deepa Metha's Fire is under fire from the country's self-appointed moral police. Their contention is that the film is a violation of the Indian cultural mores and cannot be allowed to influence the Indian psyche. According to them, such films ruin the moral fabric of the nation, which must be protected and defended against such intrusions at all cost, even at the cost of cultural dictatorship.
Based on the information in the above passage, it can be inferred that

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Solution

According to the paragraph, the moral police thinks that the movies are bound to affect the judgment of Indian audience and hence they need to censor the movie in order to preserve their already existing judgment and protect them from the influence of such a work.

Option B correctly summarizes the inference.

Question 130

The dominant modern belief is that the soundest foundation of peace would be universal prosperity. One may look in vain for historical evidence that the rich have regularly been more peaceful than the poor, but then it can be argued that they have never felt secure against the poor; that their aggressiveness stemmed from fear; and that the situation would be quite different if everybody were rich. It can be inferred from the above passage that

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Solution

The sentence is option b) is opposite to what the argument is conveying.

Option a) can be inferred. According to the argument, a lot of aggression has stemmed because the rich want to defend themselves against the poor. In other words, the aggression has stemmed from the desire of the haves to defend themselves against the have-nots.

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