Statement and conclusion — Aptitude Question
Statement and conclusion: Statement: 'The company has decided to increase the salaries of all its employees by 15%… Answer and worked solution on CodeKairo.
- Topic: Mathematical Reasoning
- Section: Logical Reasoning
- Difficulty: Medium
- Time target: 90 seconds
Question
Statement: 'The company has decided to increase the salaries of all its employees by 15% from next month.'
Conclusions: I. The company has the funds to pay higher salaries. II. All employees will now be satisfied.
Which conclusion follows?
Options
- Only I
- Only II
- Both
- Neither
Show the answer and the worked solution
Correct answer: A. Only I
Worked solution
- Deciding on a rise implies the company can afford it: I follows.
- Whether every employee is satisfied cannot be concluded from a pay rise alone: II does not follow.
Answer: Only I.
The idea
A conclusion must follow from the statement itself, not from plausible expectations about how people will react.
Shortcut. II carries 'all' and a feeling the statement never mentions — a universal claim about emotions cannot follow from a pay notice — while I is the precondition of any pay rise.
Common trap. "Both" — treating 'a pay rise makes staff happy' as given; the statement says nothing about satisfaction, let alone that of every employee.