Statements: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with…

2023

Statements: The T.V. programmes, telecast specially for women are packed with a variety of recipes and household hints. A major portion of magazines for women also contains the items mentioned above.

Conclusions:

I. Women are not interested in other things.

II. An average woman's primary interest lies in home and specially in the kitchen.

  1. A.

    Only conclusion I follows

  2. B.

    Only conclusion II follows

  3. C.

    Neither I nor II follows

  4. D.

    Both I and II follow

Show answer & explanation

Correct answer: B

Concept: In statement-and-conclusion reasoning, a conclusion 'follows' only when it can be drawn strictly from what the statement itself states or clearly implies — never from outside assumptions or extrapolation beyond its scope. Each conclusion is tested independently against the statement alone.

Application: The statement says both TV programmes for women and magazines for women are full of recipes and household hints — a consistent theme repeated across two independent kinds of media aimed at women.

  • Conclusion I ('women are not interested in other things'): the statement never mentions anything about women's interest in unrelated topics, so there is no basis to conclude disinterest in them. This over-generalizes beyond the statement, so it does not follow.

  • Conclusion II ('an average woman's primary interest lies in home and specially in the kitchen'): the repeated emphasis on recipes and household hints across two separate media sources aimed at women is a direct, reasonable basis for inferring this is a primary interest. So it follows.

Cross-check: 'Neither follows' is too strict, since II is a reasonable direct inference, not a verbatim restatement, so it must be rejected as an option. 'Both follow' wrongly extends the statement's silence on unrelated topics into a sweeping negative claim (Conclusion I), which the statement does not support.

Result: Only conclusion II follows.

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