In virtually any industry, technological improvements increase labor productivity, which is the output of goods and services per person-hour worked. In Parland’s industries, labor productivity is significantly higher than it is in Vergia’s industries. Clearly, therefore, Parland’s industries must, on the whole, be further advanced technologically than Vergia’s are. The argument is most vulnerable to which ofthe following criticisms?

Which one of the following has four sides

PMC Practice 6
Logical Reasoning
Logical Problems
Elimination Tool:

Statements:

I Majority of the citizens in the locality belongs to higher income group.

II The sales in the local super market are comparatively much higher than in other localities.

Two donkeys are fighting with each other, one with small horns and one with large horns. Which one will be injured the most?

PMC 2021 Tested
Logical Reasoning
Logical Problems
Elimination Tool:

Electricity would revolutionize agriculture according to a prediction of the not-so-distant future published in 1940. Electrodes would be inserted into the soil, and the current between them would kill bugs and weeds and make crop plants stronger. Which of the following, if true, most strongly indicates that the logic of the prediction above is flawed?

On the day Bilal is born,
Jamila weighs more than Javed.
Javed weighs less than Junaid.
Of the three babies, Junaid weighs the most.
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

PMC Sample 3
Logical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Elimination Tool:

Statement: Courts take too long in deciding important disputes of various departments.

Courses of Action:

I Courts should be ordered to speed up matters.

II Special powers should be granted to officers to settle disputes concerning their department.

Here are some words translated from an artificial language:

Granamelke means big tree

Pinimelke means little tree

Melkehoon means tree house

Which word could mean big house?

PMC Practice 15
Logical Reasoning
Critical Thinking
Elimination Tool:

Statements:

Most teachers are boys. Some boys are students.

Conclusions:

I Some students are boys.

II Some teachers are students.

Statements:

I Police resorted to lathi-charge to disperse the unlawful gathering of large number of people.

II The citizens’ forum called a general strike in protest against the police atrocities.

Statement:
The Management of School M has decided to give free breakfast from next academic year to all the students in its primary section through its canteen even though they will not get any government grant.
Courses of Action
(I)The school will have to admit many poor students who will seek admission for the next academic year.
(II) The canteen facilities and utensils have to be checked and new purchases to be made to equip it properly.
(III) Funds will have to be raised to support the sc heme for years to come.

PMC Practice 4
Logical Reasoning
Course of Action
Elimination Tool:

Statement

The availability of imported fruits has increased in the indigenous market and so the demand for indigenous fruits has been decreased.
I. To help the indigenous producers of fruits, the Government should impose high import duty on these fruits, even if these are not of good quality.
II. The fruit vendors should stop selling imported fruits. So that the demand for indigenous fruits would be increased.

PMC Practice 3
Logical Reasoning
Course of Action
Elimination Tool:

Identify which do not possess the same kind of meaning as the others:

NUMS 2015
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

Fact Checking

Fact 1: All drink mixes are beverages

Fact 2: All beverages are drinkable

Fact 3: All beverages are red

If the above three statements are facts then which of the following statement will also be a fact?

I. Some drink mixes are red

II. All beverages are drink mixes.

Ill. All red drink mixes are drinkable

Logical Reasoning
Logical Problems
Elimination Tool:

FAG, GAF, HAI, IAH, ____

A competition always has:

PMC Practice 2
Logical Reasoning
Logical Deduction
Elimination Tool:

CMM, EOO, GQQ, _____, KUU

Statements:

I The prices of petrol and diesel in the domestic market have remained unchanged for the past few months.

II The crude oil prices in the international market have gone up substantially in the last few months.