Consider the statement and decide which of the assumptions are implicit.

Statement: "In the present period of economic hardships, education and small family norm may lead the nation to progress and prosperity."

Assumptions:
A. Education and small family norms are directly related to the nation's progress.
B. Big families find it difficult to bear the cost of education.

Question

Adhir Mishra has three children: Urmila, Raghu and Sumit. Sumit married Roma, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mohan. The Mohans married their youngest daughter to the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Sharma and they had two children Sandeep and Shaifali. The Mohans have two more children, Roshan and Bimla, both elder to Sheila. Sohan and Shivendar are sons of Sumit and Roma. Leela is the daughter of Sandeep.

Answer 1

This is a statement and assumptions question from critical reasoning. The statement links two causes, education and a small family norm, to one result, national progress and prosperity. To find the implicit assumptions, we check what the speaker must be silently believing for the claim to make logical sense.

Assumption A (education and small family norms are directly related to progress): The statement says these two factors "may lead" to progress. A person can only make this claim if they already believe there is a genuine connection between education, small families and national growth. Without that belief, the whole sentence has no basis. So A is silently assumed by the speaker.
Assumption B (big families find it difficult to bear the cost of education): This talks about the financial strain on big families, a separate idea about affordability. The original statement never claims that cost is the reason small families help progress, it just links education and small family size to progress in a general way. Since the statement does not depend on the cost angle at all, B is not something the speaker had to assume.

Since only assumption A is required to hold up the statement, and assumption B is an unrelated addition, only A is implicit.

Let's summarize:

An implicit assumption is something the statement cannot logically survive without.
Assumption A supplies the missing link between education, small families and progress, so it passes the test.
Assumption B talks about the cost of education in big families, which the statement never needed, so it fails the test.

The correct answer is option (1), only A is implicit.

Answer 2

This is a statement and assumptions question from critical reasoning. The statement links two causes, education and a small family norm, to one result, national progress and prosperity. To find the implicit assumptions, we check what the speaker must be silently believing for the claim to make logical sense.

Assumption A (education and small family norms are directly related to progress): The statement says these two factors "may lead" to progress. A person can only make this claim if they already believe there is a genuine connection between education, small families and national growth. Without that belief, the whole sentence has no basis. So A is silently assumed by the speaker.
Assumption B (big families find it difficult to bear the cost of education): This talks about the financial strain on big families, a separate idea about affordability. The original statement never claims that cost is the reason small families help progress, it just links education and small family size to progress in a general way. Since the statement does not depend on the cost angle at all, B is not something the speaker had to assume.

Since only assumption A is required to hold up the statement, and assumption B is an unrelated addition, only A is implicit.

Let's summarize:

An implicit assumption is something the statement cannot logically survive without.
Assumption A supplies the missing link between education, small families and progress, so it passes the test.
Assumption B talks about the cost of education in big families, which the statement never needed, so it fails the test.

The correct answer is option (1), only A is implicit.

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The Correct Option is A

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