There are fewer models of the RR available for sale than the number of business houses and billionaires that want to invest in these premium cars. Last year, only 180 cars were sold, while the number of bookings exceeded 1800.

Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the above argument?

Laptops have replaced desktop computers across the world and it has been predicted that by the year 2020, there would be no desktops left. The major laptop manufacturers have reported a sharp increase in the units they produce annually; whereas the sales of desktop computers have dropped significantly. This heralds the end of the desktop computer industry in near future.

Which of the following is a necessary assumption for the above conclusion?

A shrewd peasant was always protected well enough against impostors in the market place, and we have all sorts of businessmen who have made themselves excellent judges of phoniness without the benefit of a high-school diploma; but this kind of shrewdness goes along with a great deal of credulity. Outside the limited field within which experience has taught the peasant or the illiterate businessman his lessons, he is often hopelessly gullible.

Which of the options provides critical completion of the passage?

A new type of air conditioner claims to have bacteria-killing properties. According to the research and development cell, it kills the microbes present in the air and makes it safer and healthier to breathe. Although these air conditioners cost twice the price of regular types, it is a wise investment to buy the new type and save your family from disease causing bacteria.

Which of the following would weaken the given argument?

The senses are said to be greater than the body; but greater than the senses is the mind. Greater than the mind is the intellect; and what is greater than the intellect is the Self. Know that which is greater than the intellect and subdue the mind by reason, kill this enemy in the form of desire that is hard to overcome. Choose the option that best catches the essence of the text.

Shark fin soup is a very expensive and popular delicacy in Chinese cuisine. It is prepared from the fins of sharks that are trapped, drugged to remove the fins and then returned to the ocean. These sharks are often eaten up by other sharks, thus greatly depleting their numbers. It follows that this practice will inevitably lead to the extinction of sharks.

Which of the following most weakens the above argument?

Tea drinking is demonstrated as having significant salutary effects. One area is that of generating a feeling of well-being and good health through its antioxidant action in reducing free radicals. As a result, tea drinkers lead longer, healthier and happier lives.

Which of the following most weakens the above argument?

Researchers pushing the limits of optical design are learning from a simple sea creature crusted with tiny lenses, each one smaller and more perfect than any human engineer could devise. The brittlestar, as the organism is called, sees with its bones. Built into the starfish's tough, calcite skeleton are arrays of microscopic crystals that focus light ten limes more precise than any manufactured micro-optics. Each brittlestar lens is one-thousandth of an inch across, composed of a calcite crystal that grows into a flawless eyepiece naturally corrected for any distortions, double images or any other optical aberrations. The beadlike lenses cover skeletal plates on the brittlestar's five supple arms and its disk-shaped body.

What conclusion is the author leading us to?

The problem of traffic congestion in Athens has been testing the ingenuity of politicians and town planners for years. But the measures adopted to date have not succeeded in decreasing the number of cars on the roads in the city centre. In 1980, an odd and even number-plates legislation was introduced, under which odd and even plates were banned in the city centre on alternate days, thereby expecting to halve the number of cars in the city centre. Then in 1993, it was decreed that all cars in use in the city centre must be fitted with catalytic converters; a regulation had just then been introduced, substantially reducing import taxes on cars with catalytic converters, the only condition being that the buyer of such a 'clean' car offered for destruction a car at least 15 years old.

Which one of the following options, if true, would best support the claim that the measures adopted to date have not succeeded?

Cold water does not quench one’s thirst as effectively as water at room temperature does. On the other hand, cold water is better for taking a bath with as compared to bathing with water at room temperature.

Which of the following most closely parallels the reasoning above?