Statement: Sitapur has a lower population and hence is a safer place to live.…
2025
Statement:
Sitapur has a lower population and hence is a safer place to live.
Conclusions:
A city that has less population is a better place to live.
Sitapur has a lower number of crimes than Delhi.
- A.
If only conclusion I follows
- B.
If only conclusion II follows
- C.
If both conclusions I and II follow
- D.
If neither I nor II follows
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Correct answer: D
In a Statement–Conclusion question, everything in the statement must be assumed true, but a conclusion only ‘follows’ when it is a definite inference contained strictly within the statement — it must not widen the statement's scope from one named case to a general rule, change ‘safer’ into a broader claim like ‘better’, or introduce any entity, city, or comparison the statement itself never mentions.
Conclusion I (‘a city with less population is a better place to live’) widens Sitapur's single case into a rule for every city, and swaps the statement's own word ‘safer’ for the broader claim ‘better place to live’ — neither move is supported by the statement, so it does not follow.
Conclusion II (‘Sitapur has a lower number of crimes than Delhi’) relies on a comparison with Delhi, a city the statement never names or compares Sitapur to — so it does not follow either.
Since both conclusions introduce something the statement itself does not supply — a wider scope for the first, an unstated external comparison for the second — neither conclusion is a valid inference from the statement alone.