Question
The prices of essential commodities have gone up
substantially during the past few weeks. Courses of Action: (I)The government should set up an expert committee to study the trend of prices. (II)The govt. should immediately abolish taxes on essential commodities. (III)The govt. should advise the general public to refrain from purchasing essential commodities for few days. In each question below is given a statement followed by three courses of action numbered I, II and III. A course of action is a step or administrative decision to be taken for improvement, follow-up or further action in regard to the problems, policy etc. on the basis of the information given in the statement, you have to assume everything in the statement to be true, then decide of the suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.Solution
The courses of action suggested in I statement is absurd as it talks about the trend not the remedial measures to bring down to price similarly the purchasing and consumption of essential commodities cannot be postponed for a few days, hence statement III is also absurd.
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