Given below is a question followed by 2 statements.
Which of the following statement(s) is/are sufficient to answer the question?
Question: Does John went to market yesterday?
Statements:
I. John goes to market every alternate days
II. Today is Wednesday
Which of the following statement(s) is/are sufficient to answer the question?
Question: Does John went to market yesterday?
Statements:
I. John goes to market every alternate days
II. Today is Wednesday
- Statement I alone is sufficient
- Statement II alone is sufficient
- Both statements I and II together are sufficient
- Neither statement I nor statement II are sufficient
The Correct Option is D
Solution and Explanation
To determine if John went to the market yesterday, we need information about both the days John goes to the market and today’s day.
Statement I: John goes to the market every alternate day.
This tells us that John visits the market on alternate days, but it does not tell us the exact days he started going to the market. Without knowing the starting point, we cannot determine if he went yesterday.
Statement II: Today is Wednesday.
This gives us the information about today’s day but does not provide any information about when John goes to the market. Therefore, this statement alone is not sufficient to answer the question.
Combining both statements:
Even though we know that John visits the market on alternate days and that today is Wednesday, we still do not know whether his last visit was on Monday or Tuesday. Without knowing the exact starting point of his market visits, we cannot determine if he went to the market yesterday.
Conclusion: Since we still cannot answer the question definitively, the correct answer is (D) Neither statement I nor statement II are sufficient.
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