Verbal Reasoning - Logical Deduction Questions

Statements : Government has spoiled many top ranking financial institutions by appointing bureaucrats as Directors of these institutions.

Conclusions :

a) Government should appoint Directors of the financial institutes taking into consideration the expertise of the person in the area of finance.
b) The Director of the financial institute should have expertise commensurate with the financial work carried out by the institute.

Consider the given arguments as true and decide which of the given assumptions is/are implicit.

Argument :
The best bus travels company has decided to increase its fare by 10%.

Conclusions :
1. Passengers may opt for other buses costing less than the best bus travels company.
2. The demand for the buses by passengers may remain unchanged even after the fare hike.

Read the following paragraph and answer the question based on it.

The ongoing progress in technologies continue to throw up fresh risks related to data privacy nd security. There can be no true progress in technologies without such risks. The IT industries need to be equipped to handle such risks.

Which option relates best to the above statement ?

Consider the given statement and decide which of the given assumptions is/are implicit.

Statement :

'Triple your money in one year' - an advertisement.

Assumptions :

I. The assurance is not genuine.

II. People want their money multiplied.

There is an unprecedented increase in migration of villagers to urban areas as repeated crop failure has put them into precarious financial situation.

Courses of Action:

I. The villagers should be provided with alternate source of income in their villages which will make them stay put.

II. The migrated villagers should be provided with jobs in the urban areas to help them survive.

In the following questions are to be based on the details given below.

A salesman visits 274 houses in a town to find out the views about three products X, Y and Z. He found that 157 use X, 98 use only X, 22 use all the three, 14 use X and Z but not Y, 39 use Y and Z, 48 use only Y.

What fraction used at least two products?

Consider the given arguments as true and decide which of the given assumptions is/are implicit.

Argument :
Public smoking is an offence underthe law.

Assumptions :
1. Smoking is injurious to the health of the person who smoke.
2. Smoke is injurious even to others health in the public places.

Directions:

A string of words is fed into a computing machine. It processes the input and gives an output in the following manner:

Input: Honesty is the best policy.

Step 1: is Honesty the best policy

Step 2: is the Honesty best policy

Step 3: is the best Honesty policy

Step 4: is the best policy Honesty

Output: is the best policy Honesty

Now,

If the input is "A rolling stone gathers no moss", what will be the fifth word in the string after 4 steps?