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Instructions (127 to 129): The following questions comprise of one or more statements. Answer the questions on the basis of the given statement(s). Accept the factual assumptions required by the question, even if you believe that the statement is false.

Statements:
I. Cheese is bad for people with high-cholesterol.
II. Sumeet does not eat cheese.
Assuming that (i) and (ii) are true, which of the following statement follows?

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Ask whether the data ever tells you Sumeet's cholesterol level, and whether a food being harmful is the same as that food being avoided.
Updated On: Jul 17, 2026
  • Sumeet has high-cholesterol.
  • Cheese is bad for Sumeet.
  • People with high-Cholesterol do not eat cheese.
  • None of the above.
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The Correct Option is D

Solution and Explanation

The two statements never meet. One connects cheese to a medical group. The other connects Sumeet to a habit. Sumeet is never placed inside or outside the medical group, so any statement that ties him to cheese being harmful has to smuggle in information from outside the data. Check each choice for that smuggling.

  1. Sumeet has high-cholesterol: This works backwards from a habit to a diagnosis. Even if every high cholesterol patient avoided cheese, plenty of healthy people avoid cheese too, so the habit cannot identify him. This is the classic error of reading a cause into an effect.
  2. Cheese is bad for Sumeet: The harm claim is conditional on having high cholesterol. Sumeet's cholesterol level is simply unknown. A conditional statement gives you nothing until the condition is confirmed for the person in question.
  3. People with high-Cholesterol do not eat cheese: Being harmful and being avoided are different things. The statement reports a medical effect, not a dietary survey. Someone with high cholesterol may eat cheese every day and suffer for it, and the first statement stays perfectly true.
  4. None of the above: Once the first three are seen to depend on facts that were never supplied, this is what is left standing.

A useful test on this question type is to try building a world where both statements hold and the candidate conclusion is false. Give Sumeet normal cholesterol and a plain dislike of cheese, and all three of the first options break while both statements remain true.

Let's summarize:

  • The two statements share no common term, so no bridge exists between them.
  • Avoiding a food does not prove a medical condition.
  • "Bad for" describes an effect, not a behaviour, so it cannot be rewritten as "do not eat".

Nothing follows, so option (D) is correct.

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