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Directions
(Qs. 1 to 6): Each of the following problems has a question and two
statements labelled (A) and (B). Use the data given in (A) and (B) together
with other available information (such as the number of hours in a day,
mathematical facts, etc.) to decide whether the statements are sufficient to
answer the question. Then select the answer option as:
(a)
if you can get the answer from (A) alone but not from (B) alone.
(b)
if you can get the answer from (B) alone but not from (A) alone.
(c)
if you can get the answer from both (A) and (B) together, but not from (A)
alone or (B) alone.
(d)
if you cannot get the answer from statements (A) and (B) together, but need
even more data.
1.
Is x greater than 0?
(A) (x^3) + 1 = 0
(B) (x^2) – 1 = 0
2.
Is y larger than x?
(A) x + y = 2
(B) (x/y) = 2
3.
If a and b are both positive numbers, then which is larger, 2a or 3b?
(A) a is greater than 2b.
(B) a is greater than or equal to b + 3.
4.
A square originally had sides with length s. The length of the side is
increased by x%. Did the area of the square increase by more than 10%?
(A) x is greater than 5.
(B) x is less than 10.
5.
Which of the four numbers w, x, y, or z is the largest?
(A) The average of w, x, y, and z is 25.
(B) The numbers w, x, and y are each less
than 24.
6.
How many of the numbers x and y are positive?
(A) x is less than 5
(B) x + y = 24.
7. Three engineering graduates Paul, George
and Pauline joined three firms specialising in manufacturing, software and
pharmaceuticals. They were posted in the marketing, finance and quality
departments. If the person who joined the manufacturing company is posted in
marketing and George is posted in quality, what should necessarily be true?
(a)
If Pauline is working in the finance department she should be in a software
company.
(b)
If George had joined a software firm then Paul must be working with a
manufacturing firm.
(c)
If George is in the pharmaceutical industry, and Paul is working in finance,
then Pauline must not have joined a manufacturing firm.
(d)
If Pauline is in the finance department and the person who joined a software
company is working with the quality department, then Paul is working in the
manufacturing industry.
8. I do not believe that ambitious people
are good parents. Of course, there are some parents who have successful careers
and well-raised children. But these parents are not really ambitious. Were they
ambitious, they could not devote the necessary time and energy to raising their
children well. Which of the following best explains the flawed reasoning in the
author’s argument?
(a)
It relies on a word with two different meanings.
(b)
It bases an absolute conclusion upon relative evidence.
(c)
It assumes the conclusion.
(d)
It generalises from inappropriate specifics.
9. Testing the reasoning abilities of
illiterate people has proven to be particularly challenging to psychologists.
When illiterate people are given tasks that are designed to require them to
reason to a conclusion, they are relatively successful when the mechanical
devices used in the test are familiar ones. But if the devices used in the test
are unfamiliar to the illiterate persons, they are relatively unsuccessful at
performing analogous tasks. Which of the following conclusions can be
reasonably drawn from the information above?
(a)
Reasoning abilities of illiterate people should not be tested using tasks that
do not involve familiar devices.
(b)
Literacy is required in order to test the reasoning abilities of people through
the use of mechanical devices.
(c)
Testing illiterate people for reasoning abilities is relatively unsuccessful.
(d)
Mechanical devices are a poor substitute for words in reasoning to a
conclusion.
10. Monthly employee evaluations are an
excellent tool for managers. With them, employees that are not productive can
be removed from the company, and efficient workers rewarded, and all within the
space of a month. The argument above logically depends on which of the
following assumptions?
(a)
Workers do not in evaluations of the management of the company.
(b)
Unproductive employees often refuse to cooperate with managers doing the
evaluations, because they see these evaluations as a violation of their
privacy.
(c)
Evaluations can identify with some accuracy whether an employee is productive
or not.
(d)
Employee evaluations are a better source of information about employee
grievances than are monthly staff meetings.
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Answers
1(a) 2(c)
3(a) 4(a) 5(c)
6(d) 7(c)
8(c) 9(a) 10(c)