Statement:
When your dress is excellent, many people ask which tailor has stitched that dress.
Assumptions:
1. If the dress is bad, people don't ask about the tailor.
2. People want to know how to stitch the same dress.
The statement focuses on a specific scenario: the connection between an excellent dress and people inquiring about the tailor.
Assumption 1 states: "If the dress is bad, people don't ask about the tailor." The original statement implies that people ask about the tailor *because* the dress is excellent. This suggests that excellence is the condition prompting the question. Logically, if the condition (excellence) is absent, the resulting action (asking about the tailor) is unlikely to occur. Therefore, this assumption is implicitly linked to the statement.
Assumption 2 states: "People want to know how to stitch the same dress." The statement mentions people asking "which tailor" stitched the dress. This question is about identifying the maker or attributing quality, not necessarily about learning the process of stitching or replicating the dress. The statement doesn't provide information about the audience's desire to learn sewing skills.
Based on the direct implications of the statement, asking about the tailor is a response to an excellent dress. The absence of this response when the dress is not excellent (Assumption 1) is a reasonable inference. The desire to learn stitching methods (Assumption 2) is not directly supported by the text.
The analysis indicates that only Assumption 1 is implicitly present in the given statement.
Given below is a statement followed by two possible reasons numbered I and II. Read the statement carefully and decide which of the two explain(s) the event/observation/information given in the statement.
Statement – Long queues were seen outside the electricity bill payment counters in city X on 14ᵗʰ June 2023.
Reasons:
(I) The last date for payment of electricity bills in City X is 15ᵗʰ of every month.
(II) Many people were unable to pay the electricity bill online in June 2023 due to a server failure.
You have to decide which of these assumptions is/are implicit in the statement, considering the statement and the assumptions that follow it.
Statement:
I like the soldiers.
I want to become a soldier.
Assumptions:
I) I am not a soldier.
II) I am a soldier.
Read the following passages and answer the question follows. Your answers to these items should be based on the passages only.
Many people in India feel that if we cut our defence expenditure on weapon-building, we can create a climate of peace with our neighbours, subsequently reducing the conflict or creating a no-war situation. People who proclaim such ideas are either the victims of war or the propagators of false argument.
With reference to the above passage, which of the following is the most valid assumption?
Consider the given statement and decide which of the given assumptions is (are) implicit.
Statement :
“Successful people are happy in life."
Assumptions :
1. Those that are unhappy are not successful
2. Most of the times success in one’s endeavours gives happiness.
In this question, a statement is followed by two assumptions:
Statements: Though he is fat yet he runs fast.
Assumptions:
I. Fat people have weak muscles.
II. Fat people generally cannot run fast.
Then which of the answer is correct?
Consider the given statement and decide which of the given assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Statement:
Television is correctly called the Idiot box.
Assumptions:
1. People who watch television are idiots.
2. People who do not watch television are intelligent.