based on one statement & two assumptions Practice Questions Answers Test with Solutions & More Shortcuts

Question : 11 [S.B.I.P.O. 2001]

• Statement:
• "Private property, trespassers will be prosecuted"-A notice on a plot of land.
• Assumptions:
• I. The passerby may read the notice and may not trespass.
• II. The people are scared of prosecution.

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 and

e) If both I and II are implicit.

Question : 12 [R.B.I. 2004]

• Statement:
• The government has decided to disinvest a large chunk of its equity in select public sector undertakings for better fiscal management.
• Assumptions:
• I. The amount generated out of the disinvestment process may reduce substantially the mounting fiscal deficits.
• II. There will be enough demand in the market for the shares of these undertakings.

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 and

e) If both I and II are implicit.

Question : 13 [S.S.C. 2003]

• Statement:
• If he is intelligent, he will pass the examination.
• Assumptions:
• I. To pass, he must be intelligent.
• II. He will pass the examination.

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 and

e) If both I and II are implicit.

Question : 14 [Bank P.O. 2003]

• Statement:
• Kartick left for Delhi on Tuesday by train to attend a function to be held on Friday at his uncle's house in Delhi.
• Assumptions:
• I. Kartick may reach Delhi on Wednesday.
• II. Kartick may reach Delhi before Friday.

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 and

e) If both I and II are implicit.

Question : 15 [M.A.T. 2005]

• Statement:
• Lack of stimulation in the first four or five years of life can have adverse consequences.
• Assumptions:
• I. A great part of the development of observed intelligence occurs in the earliest years of life.
• II. 50 percent of the measurable intelligence at age of 17 is already predictable by the age of four.

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 and

e) If both I and II are implicit.