Two statements numbered I and II are given below. Read them and decide how they are related.
I. Early this year, the government cut the tax on electric scooters, which made them cheaper to buy.
II. Later in the year, the sale of electric scooters rose sharply.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Statement I is the cause and statement II is its effect.
In a cause-and-effect question, the cause is the event that brings the other about; the effect is what happens as a result, and it cannot come before its cause.
Statement I comes first: the tax cut made electric scooters cheaper.
When a product becomes cheaper, more people buy it, so sales rise (statement II), and this happened later in the year.
The rise in sales came after the tax cut, so the rise could not have caused the cut; I is the cause and II is its effect.