Dependence Between Statements

XAT 2013 · VALR · Hard · Critical Reasoning

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Choose the most appropriate option after reading the following statements.

  1. Business schools are ideally positioned to point out when an action that provides a benefit for an individual comes at a cost to society, but in reality they rarely bother.
  2. It is part of the malaise that has befallen the political debate on capitalism, which has been taken over by special interests and people who have no faith in a real market-based system.
  3. When governments favours the private sector it is all too often by being "pro-business" rather than "pro-market", meaning that favourable conditions are provided to particular institutions rather than to institutions broadly.
  1. A.

    Statements 1 and 2 are necessarily dependent.

  2. B.

    Statements 2 and 3 are necessarily dependent.

  3. C.

    Statements 2 and 3 may be dependent.

  4. D.

    Statements 1, 2 and 3 cannot be independent.

  5. E.

    All the three statements are necessarily independent.

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