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Directions for Questions from 1 to 5:

Read the following arguments and answer the questions that follow.

1. Anna runs the canteen service in Buffalo Pvt. Ltd. On the first 3 days of the week he serves normal Indian food without any special delicacies. On
the next 3 days of the week he serves special delicacies like Chinese food, Chaat, sweets etc. Customers are disgruntled with normal Indian food
and wait for the 3 days of special food. The Special Delicacies cost more than the normal food. By this practice, Anna hopes to optimise cost as well
as retain the disgruntled customers of the first 3 days of the week.

Which of the following is being assumed by Anna?

j Customers are worried about cost when it comes to food.

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j There are some customers who are not worried about special food.
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j Retaining customers is a very difficult task.
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j Customers would put up with the first three days of normal food if special food is served in the next three days.
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j The difference in cost between normal food and special food is not much.
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2. Discourse on Inequality is one of the most powerful critiques of modernity ever written. It attempts to trace the psychological and political effects of
modern society on human nature, and to show how these effects were produced. In order to do this, Rousseau demonstrates that human
evolution and the development of inequality between men are closely related. The result is both a weeping explanation of how modern man was
created, and a sharp criticism of unequal modern political institutions. In the Discourse, Rousseau diagnoses the problem with modern political
institutions that he later attempted to resolve in the Social Contract.

Rousseau would agree with which of the following statements

A. Inequality is good since it has been instrumental in creating modern man.

B. Inequality has hampered human evolution.
C. Political institutions have inherently created inequality.

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j A and C
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j A and B
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3. “One of the most interesting puzzles in child development is how infants and young children come to understand other people’s emotions,
thoughts and inner feelings. They can see another person’s body move, but they can’t see into another person’s heart and mind. How do babies
get from observing body movements to making attributions about internal thoughts and feelings? This research indicates that a key is that they
use themselves as a model for understanding others. They assume that what affects
them in a certain way, also affects others in that same way. It’s a good bet, and it works,” added Meltzoff.

Which of the following can be inferred from the above argument?

j Adults can understand other people’s hearts and minds easily.

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j It is easy to understand babies.
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j In the absence of body movements, it is impossible to understand the other person’s thoughts and feelings.
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j Understanding oneself can help one to understand others.
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j Behaviour of babies is complex as compared to adults.
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4. Mrs A lives in Dover court Road in north Bristol and considers five people on her street as friends. But Mrs B, who is roughly the same age and lives
round the corner in a very similar house in Muller Street, has only one friend. The difference, says a study, has nothing to do with personality, but is
because of the weight of traffic. Fewer than 150 vehicles a day pass down Dover court Road, compared with more than 21,130 a day on Muller
Street. New research, based on interviews with households on three Bristol streets, has found that people who live with high levels of motor traffic
are far more likely to be socially disconnected and even ill than people who live in quiet, clean streets.
 The conclusion above would be weakened if it was true that

j North Bristol has the highest number of social networking organizations in the world.
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j People in Bristol are generally more anti-social than people in other cities.
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j The households which were interviewed were more social than the average North Bristol resident.
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j Whether a person is socializing or not is solely determined by genetic factors.
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j People in surveys usually project themselves as having a large number of friends.
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5. The Washington Post has taken a bold decision by launching a new web section that links readers to the best of political coverage, including that
carried by rival newspapers. The idea behind the political browser is to brief political junkies on the top “must reads” of the day. Encouraging
readers to leave one’s own website to find more content was unthinkable not long ago. But traditional news organisations have started breaking
down their “walled garden” mentality in the past few years, writes the Editor. The shift is partly a response to the growing influence of bloggers,
who link to items they find interesting regardless of the source.

From the above paragraph, which of the following is a logical conclusions?

j The Washington post was considered a traditional publication earlier.

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j Newspaper readers are increasingly becoming disloyal.
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j The Washington post wants to cater to the blogger type discriminative reader also.
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j Bloggers do not read traditional newspapers.
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j The quality of the political articles in The Washington post is not upto the mark.
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Directions for Questions from 6 to 10:

Answer the questions on the basis of the information given below.
In a tennis tournament eight different players namely A, B, C, D, E, F, G and H participated. Each player played exactly one match against each of
the remaining seven players. No match ended in a draw or tie. In each match two out of the eight mentioned players contested and one player won
whereas the other player lost the match. Exactly five out of the eight different players won exactly five matches each.
Additional Information Given:
1. G lost his match against each of B, C, D and E.
2. F lost his match against A but won its match against G.

Additional Information for last three questions:

G won its match against H and A lost its match against both C and D.

6. If H won his match against B and C lost its match against F, then which of the following pairs of players
definitely won its match against E?

j A and C
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j C and D
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j F and E
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7. How many matches were won by F in the tennis tournament?

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8. How many matches were won by A in the tennis tournament?

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9. How many players won exactly one match?

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10. Find the total number of matches played in the tennis tournament.

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