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Given below are the jumbled sentences of a paragraph. The first and the last sentence of the jumbled paragraph are given in correct order. Arrange the middle sentences in the correct sequence.

i. The problem of food is intimately connected with population
ii. wages will seldom rise in proportion to the rising prices
iii. the market is governed by demand and supply
iv. without enough food, such people lack health, strength of efficiency
v. if too many people demand goods to go round, prices will rise and poor classes will starve
vi. they fall an easy prey to all sorts of diseases.

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Find the sentence that names the group "they" refers to in the fixed last sentence, and remember that the demand and supply rule has to be stated before the case that uses it.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • iii, v, ii, iv
  • ii, iii, iv, v
  • iv, ii, v, iii
  • v, iii, iv, ii
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The Correct Option is A

Solution and Explanation

Treat this paragraph as a chain of causes, each link handing something to the next. The opener i states the topic, food and population. The closer vi says "they fall an easy prey to all sorts of diseases", and that "they" must belong to someone named just before it. Working backwards from that pronoun, plus the rule that a principle is stated before it is applied, orders all four middle sentences.

  1. iii, v, ii, iv: The market rule comes first, then the case where too many people bid prices up and the poor starve, then the reason the poor cannot escape it (wages lag behind prices), then the effect on their bodies ("such people lack health"). "Such people" hands the pronoun "they" to the closing sentence. Accepted.
  2. ii, iii, iv, v: Sentence ii talks about "the rising prices" before any prices have risen, so the definite article has nothing to refer to, and finishing on v breaks the link into vi. Rejected.
  3. iv, ii, v, iii: Opens with "such people" when the only nouns so far are food and population, and it leaves the demand and supply principle sitting at the end, after the situation it was supposed to explain. Rejected.
  4. v, iii, iv, ii: Applies the market rule and only then states it, which reverses the logic. It also ends on ii, a sentence about wages, so "they" in the closing sentence would refer to prices. Rejected.

Read together: "The problem of food is intimately connected with population; the market is governed by demand and supply; if too many people demand goods to go round, prices will rise and poor classes will starve; wages will seldom rise in proportion to the rising prices; without enough food, such people lack health, strength of efficiency; they fall an easy prey to all sorts of diseases."

Let's summarize:

  • A general economic law is stated before the specific case it explains, so iii comes before v.
  • "The rising prices" in ii repeats "prices will rise" in v, so ii must come after v.
  • "Such people" in iv and "they" in vi refer to the same poor classes, which pins iv to the last middle slot.

The middle sentences therefore run iii, v, ii, iv, and option (A) is correct.

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