In each of the following questions, two statements numbered I and II are…
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In each of the following questions, two statements numbered I and II are given. There may be cause and effect relationship between the two statements. These two statements may be the effect of the same cause or independent causes. These statements may be independent causes without having any relationship. Read both the statements in each question and mark your answer as
Statements:
i. India has surpassed the value of tea exports this year over all the earlier years due to an increase in demand for quality tea in the European market.
ii. There is an increase in demand of coffee in the domestic market during the last two years.
- A.
Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect
- B.
Statement II is the cause and statement I is its effect
- C.
Both the statements I and II are independent causes
- D.
Both the statements I and II are effects of independent causes
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Correct answer: C
Concept: In these cause-and-effect statement pairs, first check whether one statement's event actually produces the other; if it does, that fixes which is cause and which is effect. If neither statement produces the other, the pair is read as simply independent of one another when the two matters are disconnected in subject, market, and driver, with nothing in the wording asking you to infer a further, unstated cause behind either one.
Application: Statement I reports a rise in the value of India's tea exports, and it already names its own driver, increased demand for quality tea in the European market. Statement II reports a separate rise in domestic coffee demand over the last two years. These involve two different commodities, two different markets (an export market abroad versus a domestic market at home), and no shared driver links a change in one to a change in the other.
Statement I does not cause Statement II: rising European demand for tea has no channel through which it could alter coffee consumption inside India.
Statement II does not cause Statement I: a shift in domestic coffee demand cannot raise the export value of tea sold abroad.
The pair is not read as effects of independent causes either: that reading applies when a statement's stated result is left pointing at some further, unstated cause you are meant to infer. Here neither statement leaves anything to infer, Statement I already gives its complete reason in full (the rise in European demand), and Statement II is presented as a plain, observed trend, so there is no hidden cause behind either one waiting to be uncovered.
Result: With no causal link running in either direction and no shared unstated cause behind them, the two statements stand as two disconnected, independent occurrences.