Read the given Statement(s) and Conclusions carefully and select which of the…
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Read the given Statement(s) and Conclusions carefully and select which of the Conclusions logically follow(s) from the Statement(s).
Statement I: Government Job is better than Private Sector Job because Government Job is more secure.
Statement II: Private Sector Job provides more salary than Government Job.
Conclusion:
I: Government Job is more secure than Private Job.
II: Private Sector Job gives more workload and, of course, it provides better salary than Government Job.
- A.
Only Conclusion I Follows
- B.
Only Conclusion II Follows
- C.
Neither Conclusion I nor II Follows
- D.
Both Conclusions Follow
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Correct answer: A
Concept: In Statement-and-Conclusion questions, a conclusion "follows" only if it can be deduced strictly from the given statement(s) — taken as true — without relying on any outside assumption, general knowledge, or fact the statements do not mention. Even a conclusion that is partly supported fails to follow if any part of it introduces unstated information.
Application to this question:
Statement I gives job security as the explicit reason Government Job is rated better, so it establishes: Government Job is more secure than Private Job.
Statement II establishes only a salary comparison: Private Sector Job pays more than Government Job.
Conclusion I restates exactly the security comparison already given in Statement I, so it needs no outside assumption — it follows.
Conclusion II's salary claim matches Statement II, but it also asserts that Private Sector jobs involve more workload — a detail neither statement mentions. Because the conclusion must be fully supported to be valid, this unstated addition means Conclusion II, as a whole, does not follow.
Cross-check: Since Conclusion I holds and Conclusion II does not, "Neither", "Both", and "Only Conclusion II" are all ruled out, leaving only one option consistent with this evaluation.
Result: Only Conclusion I Follows.