Question

Water : P :: Food : Q
Choose the P and Q combination from the options below to form a meaningful
analogy.

• A. P = Thirst; Q = Hunger
• B. P = Drink; Q = Hunger
• C. P = Thirst; Q = Satiated
• D. P = Wet; Q = Critic

Hint:

Ask what feeling arises when each item is missing: no water gives thirst, no food gives hunger.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Identify the relationship type. The analogy Water : P asks what water, when in short supply or absent, produces as a bodily sensation.

Step 2: A lack of water causes the sensation of \(\text{Thirst}\). Similarly, a lack of food causes the sensation of \(\text{Hunger}\). So P = Thirst and Q = Hunger, and the relation 'deprivation of X produces sensation Y' holds identically for both pairs.

Step 3: Check the other options: Drink and Wet describe the substance itself, not a resulting sensation, so they break the pattern. Satiated and Critic do not correspond to Food and Water in the same causal way, so they are also inconsistent.

Hence the correct combination is P = Thirst, Q = Hunger, matching option A.

Final Answer: \(\boxed{A}\) (P = Thirst, Q = Hunger)