Q. Statement: "You must learn to refer to dictionary if you want to become a good writer." - A advises B.
Assumptions:

I. Only writers refer to the dictionary.
II. All writers, good or bad, refer to the dictionary.

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Q. Statement: It is through participative management policy alone that indiscipline in our industries can be contained and a quality of life ensured to the worker.
Assumptions:

I. Quality of life in our industries is better.
II. Indiscipline results in poor quality of life.

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Q. Statement: A line in an advertisement in a newspaper - "You really get your money's worth when you buy from our shop."
Assumptions:

I. Other shops price goods above their worth.
II. People want full value for their money.

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Q. Statement: The next meeting of the Governing Board of the Institute will be held after one year.
Assumptions:

I. The Institute will remain in function after one year.
II. The Governing Board will be dissolved after one year.

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Q. Statement: The 'M' Cooperative Housing Society has put up a notice at its gate those sales persons are not allowed inside the society.
Assumptions:

I. All the sales persons will stay away from the 'M' Cooperative Housing Society.
II. The security guard posted at the gate may be able to stop the sales persons entering the society.

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Q. Statement: What a fool I am to rely on trickster like Shaleen !
Assumptions:

I. Shaleen is unreliable.
II. I am a fool.

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Q. Statement: The multinational fast food chains are opening up a large number of Plus Coffee Shops with piped modern music in different cities of India and these are serving various breakfast (snax) with coffee.
Assumptions:

I. A large number of persons may become regular customers of these coffee shops.
II. The people will like to enjoy the comfortable environment while drinking coffee with snax.

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Q. Statement: Market trends are changing continuously and with increasing competitiveness, the consumer's demands with respect to the prices and quality are gradually increasing.
Assumptions:

I. The consumers did not care for the prices and quality earlier.
II. Market competitiveness is not favourable for the consumers.

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Q. Statement: The school authorities have decided to increase the number of students in each classroom to seventy from the next academic session to bridge the gap between the income and the expenditure to a large extent.
Assumptions:

I. The income generated by way of fees of the additional students will be sufficient enough to bridge the gap.
II. The school will get all the additional students in each class from the next academic session.

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Q. Statement: All the employees are notified that the organisation will provide transport facilities at half cost from the nearby railway station to the office except those who have been provided with travelling allowance.
Assumptions:

I. Most of the employees will travel by the office transport.
II. Those who are provided with travelling allowance will not read such notice.

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Q. Statement: The government has decided to hold the employers responsible for deducting tax at source for all its employees.
Assumptions:

I. The employers may still not arrange to deduct tax at source for its employees.
II. The employees may not allow the employers to deduct tax at source.

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Q. Statement: Whenever you have any doubt on this subject, you may refer to the book by Enn and Enn.
Assumptions:

I. The book by Enn and Enn is available.
II. There is no other book on this subject.

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Q. Statement: I can take you quickly from Kanpur to Lucknow by my cab but then you must pay me double the normal charges,
Assumptions:

I. Normally, it will take more time to reach Lucknow from Kanpur.
II. People want to reach quickly but they will not pay extra money for it.

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Q. Statement: "I would like to study the impact of pay revision on job satisfaction of employees." - A tells B.
Assumptions:

I. Job satisfaction can be measured.
II. A has necessary competence to undertake such study.

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Q. Statement: In Bombay, railway trains are indispensable for people in the suburbs to reach their places of work on time.
Assumptions:

I. Railway trains are the only mode of transport available in the suburbs of Bombay.
II. Only railway trains run punctually.

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Q. Statement: The government has decided to reduce its subsidy on LPG; however the subsidy on kerosene remains unchanged.
Assumptions:

I. Those people who buy LPG can afford to purchase LPG for a higher price.
II. Many people may stop buying LPG and instead use kerosene.

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Q. Statement: It is not true that the mightiest superpower always wins wars and gets accolades from other countries.
Assumptions:

I. Winners are sometimes admired and appreciated.
II. Winners are occasionally criticized.

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Q. Statement: To investigate the murder of the lone resident of a flat, the police interrogated the domestic servant, the watchman of the multi-storeyed buildings and the liftman.
Assumptions:

I. The domestic servant, watchman and the liftman can give a clue about the suspected murder.
II. Generally in such cases the persons known to the resident are directly or indirectly involved in the murder.

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Q. Statement: The integrated steel plants in India would no longer have to depend on imports for continuous casting refractories.
Assumptions:

I. Continuous casting refractories are needed by India.
II. Continuous casting refractories are in demand.

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Q. Statement: Equality of income throughout a community is the essential condition for maximising the total utility which the total income available could confer on the members of that community.
Assumptions:

I. If extra income were taken from the rich and given to the poor, the total utility experienced by the community would increase.
II. Equal pay for equal work.

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