Question

If highways were restricted to cars and only those trucks with capacity of less than 8 tons, most of the truck traffic would be forced to run outside highways. Such a reduction in the amount of truck traffic would reduce the risk of collisions on highways. The conclusion drawn in the first sentence depends on which of the following assumptions?

• A. The roads outside highway would be as convenient as highway for most drivers of trucks.
• B. Most of the roads outside highways are not ready to handle truck traffic.
• C. Most trucks that are currently running in highway have a capacity of more than 8 tons.
• D. Cars are at greater risk of being involved in collisions than are trucks.
• A. Whether negative advertisement strengthens democratic governance?
• B. Whether the practice of negative advertisements is good for democracy and politics?
• C. Whether negative advertising needs to be banned?
• D. Whether negative advertising produces the politics of the personal?
• A. Only I is implicit.
• B. Only I and II are implicit.
• C. Only I and III are implicit.
• D. Only II is implicit.
• A. Archana
• B. Bulbul
• C. Krishna
• D. Ananya
• A. 3
• B. 6
• C. 9
• D. 4

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

The correct option is (C): Most trucks that are currently running in highway have a capacity of more than 8 tons.

Answer 2

The argument is that if highways are restricted to cars and only trucks under 8 tons, most truck traffic would move off highways, and this would reduce the risk of collisions. We are asked for the assumption this conclusion depends on. An assumption is something that must be true for the conclusion to hold, and if it were false, the conclusion would fall apart. Let's test each option:

1. Option (A): Whether the alternate roads are as convenient as highways is not needed for the conclusion. Even if the alternate roads are less convenient, trucks over 8 tons would still be forced off the highway by the restriction, so this is not a necessary assumption.
2. Option (B): Whether the outside roads are ready to handle the traffic affects how well the trucks manage after being diverted, not whether the highway itself becomes safer. The conclusion is only about reduced risk on highways, so this readiness detail is not required for it to hold.
3. Option (C): The plan only removes trucks over 8 tons from the highway, trucks at or under 8 tons can still use it. If most of the current truck traffic on highways were actually under 8 tons, the restriction would barely reduce truck traffic at all, and the conclusion about reduced collision risk would collapse. So the argument must assume that most current highway trucks exceed 8 tons, otherwise the restriction achieves little.
4. Option (D): Whether cars face greater collision risk than trucks is irrelevant to whether restricting trucks reduces the volume of truck traffic and therefore risk, the argument's logic does not depend on comparing car risk to truck risk.

Applying the assumption negation test, only denying option (C), that most current highway trucks weigh 8 tons or less, would actually destroy the argument's conclusion, which confirms it is the necessary assumption.

Therefore, the correct answer is (C) Most trucks that are currently running in highway have a capacity of more than 8 tons.

Answer 3

The correct option is (B): Whether the practice of negative advertisements is good for democracy and politics?

Answer 4

Harry defends the right to voice negative things about a candidate as essential to democracy and free speech. Potter explains what negative advertisements actually are and how they focus on personal flaws of a rival. We need to identify the main issue underlying their exchange. Let's check each option:

1. Option (A): This frames the issue narrowly as only about whether negative ads strengthen governance, but Harry's and Potter's points are broader, covering democratic value, free speech, and the personal, character focused nature of such ads, not simply governance strength.
2. Option (B): Harry argues negative ads serve democracy and free speech, essentially good, while Potter points out they reduce politics to personal attacks, essentially a downside. Together, their exchange is precisely a debate over whether negative advertising, on balance, is good or bad for democracy and politics, which is the core disagreement being illustrated.
3. Option (C): Neither speaker discusses banning negative advertisements, Harry defends the right to make them and Potter describes their nature, so a ban is not the subject of this exchange.
4. Option (D): This is only one part of what Potter says, and does not capture Harry's side of the exchange at all, so it cannot represent the debate's overall main issue.

Since Harry's position and Potter's position are two sides of the same broader question, whether negative advertising is ultimately good or bad for democratic politics, that broader framing is the one that actually covers both speakers' points.

Therefore, the correct answer is (B) Whether the practice of negative advertisements is good for democracy and politics?

Answer 5

The correct option is (C): Only I and III are implicit.

Answer 6

The statement recommends flying to reach Delhi from Chennai quickly. We need to identify which listed assumptions are actually implicit in this recommendation. Let's check each:

1. Statement I (Chennai and Delhi are connected by air service): Recommending a flight only makes sense if such a flight actually exists between the two cities. This is a necessary, implicit assumption.
2. Statement II (there is no other means to commute between the two cities): Recommending air travel as the quickest option does not require assuming it is the only option available, other means like train or road could still exist, they would simply be slower. This is not a necessary assumption.
3. Statement III (the air distance between Delhi and Chennai is less): The whole point of the recommendation is speed, and a flight is fast primarily because the air route is comparatively short. This assumption underlies the claim that flying gets you there quickly.

Since the recommendation depends on a flight service existing and being genuinely quick, statements I and III are both implicit in it, while statement II is not required at all, other slower alternatives could still exist alongside the flight.

Therefore, the correct answer is (C) Only I and III are implicit.

Answer 7

The correct option is (D): Ananya

Answer 8

We are told: Ananya and Krishna can speak and follow English. Bulbul can write and speak Hindi, as Archana does. Archana talks with Ananya in Bengali. Krishna cannot follow Bengali. Bulbul talks with Ananya in Hindi. We need the person who knows English, Hindi and Bengali. Let's check each option:

1. Option (Archana): Archana is confirmed to know Hindi and Bengali, she talks to Ananya in Bengali. However, nothing in the statements says Archana knows English, so she cannot be confirmed as knowing all three.
2. Option (Bulbul): Bulbul is confirmed to know Hindi, used with both Archana and Ananya. But there is no statement giving Bulbul knowledge of English or Bengali, so Bulbul cannot be the answer.
3. Option (Krishna): Krishna knows English, given directly, but is explicitly stated to be unable to follow Bengali, which immediately rules Krishna out.
4. Option (Ananya): Ananya knows English, given directly. Ananya also converses with Bulbul in Hindi, which confirms she knows Hindi. And Ananya converses with Archana in Bengali, which confirms she knows Bengali too. That covers all three languages.

Only Ananya has all three languages directly confirmed by the given statements, English by direct statement, Hindi through her conversation with Bulbul, and Bengali through her conversation with Archana.

Therefore, the correct answer is (D) Ananya.

Answer 9

The correct option is (C): 9

Answer 10

We are given: '367' means 'I am happy', '748' means 'you are sad', and '469' means 'happy and sad'. We need to find which digit represents the word 'and'. The most direct method is to compare codes that share a common word and see which digit they share.

1. Option (3): The digit 3 appears only in '367' (I am happy) and not in '469' (happy and sad). Since 'and' appears only in the second phrase, its code must be a digit common to a phrase containing 'and', and 3 does not fit that pattern, so 3 cannot stand for 'and'.
2. Option (6): The digit 6 appears in both '367' (I am happy) and '469' (happy and sad). The word common to both these phrases is 'happy', not 'and', so 6 represents 'happy', not 'and'.
3. Option (9): The digit 9 appears only in '469' (happy and sad) and in no other code. Since 'happy' has already been matched to 6, and 'sad' is the word shared between '748' and '469', the one word in '469' left without a matching digit elsewhere is 'and', which must correspond to the one digit in '469' that appears nowhere else, namely 9.
4. Option (4): The digit 4 appears in both '748' (you are sad) and '469' (happy and sad). The word common to both these phrases is 'sad', so 4 represents 'sad', not 'and'.

Matching shared digits to shared words gives 6 for happy and 4 for sad, which leaves 9 as the digit unique to '469' and therefore representing the remaining word, 'and'.

Therefore, the correct answer is (C) 9.