Given below are a statement and two assumptions. Identify which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.
Statement: The government has instructed all the private schools in the city to maintain the current fees for at least two more years.
Assumptions:
I. The authorities of private schools may not follow the government instruction as they are not dependent on government funds.
II. The parents of the students of private schools of the city may still be eager to pay higher fees.
Choose the correct answer from the following:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Neither I nor II is implicit
An assumption is implicit when the person in the statement must take it for granted in order to act as he does.
I. The authorities of private schools may not follow the government instruction as they are not dependent on government funds. Not implicit. A government issues an instruction because it expects it to be followed; this assumption says the opposite.
II. The parents of the students of private schools of the city may still be eager to pay higher fees. Not implicit. Fees are frozen to spare the parents a rise, so the government takes for granted that parents do not want higher fees, not that they are eager to pay them.