The question given below contains three elements. These elements may or may…
2025
The question given below contains three elements. These elements may or may not have some inter linkage. Each group of elements may fit into one of these diagrams at (A), (B), (C) and/or (D). You have to indicate the group of elements which correctly fits into the diagrams. Which of the following diagrams indicates the best relation between Moon, Sun and Earth?
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Concept
In verbal-reasoning classification questions, a Venn-style diagram is chosen to match the set relationship among the three named items: nested (concentric) circles show a strict subset chain, circles that intersect in a chain show partial overlap of membership between some pairs, one large circle holding two separate smaller circles shows two items sharing one broader category, and three fully separate circles show items that belong to entirely distinct categories with no subset or overlap at all.
Application
The Sun is a star, the Earth is a planet, and the Moon is a natural satellite — three entirely different classes of celestial object. The Moon's orbit around the Earth and the Earth's orbit around the Sun describe physical motion, not category membership: orbiting a body does not make the orbiting body a “subset” or “member” of the category the other body belongs to. So none of the three items is a subset of, or has any overlapping membership with, either of the other two — which is exactly the case the fully separate, non-touching, non-nested three-circle diagram is used to show.
Cross-check
The diagram with one circle drawn completely inside a second, itself inside a third would require a strict subset chain (as in “dog” inside “mammal” inside “animal”) — no such chain exists among a star, a planet, and a satellite.
The diagram where the large circle overlaps with each of the two smaller circles in turn, while the two smaller circles do not overlap each other, would require two of the three items to each share some members with a third, connecting item — without necessarily sharing members with each other directly. No pair among a star, a planet, and a satellite shares any such overlapping membership, so this layout does not fit.
The diagram with two circles sitting fully inside one larger circle, without touching each other, would require two of the three items to both belong under one broader shared category represented by the outer circle — no such shared broader category links any two of these three.
Only the diagram of three fully separate circles satisfies “all three are different from each other,” which is the relationship that holds between the Sun, Earth and Moon.