Multiple choice

Directions: Analyse the statements given and choose an appropriate answer for the question that follows:

Result of a survey showed that vegetarianism is gaining popularity worldwide at a pace faster than that in the previous decade. In the east, many people have stopped visiting restaurants that specialise in meat dishes. The reduced number of customers and the overall publicity of vegetarianism resulted in huge losses for several restaurants that were forced to close their business. The restaurants in the remaining part of the world may also go out of business pretty soon.

Which of the following is a necessary assumption of the above argument?

  1. Non-vegetarian restaurants do not serve quality vegetarian dishes.

  2. The number of converts to vegetarianism is on the up all over the world, and not just in some regions.

  3. Socio–economic conditions, food preferences and climatic factors are more or less similar in all parts of the world.

  4. Disposable income of many families has been greatly reduced due to the current global recession.

  5. The customer dissatisfaction is not temporary.

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C Correct answer
Explanation

The conclusion is based upon the premise that reduced clientele and overall publicity have resulted in several restaurants closing down. Only if socio-economic, climatic and food preferences all over the world point towards benefits of vegetarianism, will the trend become global. Option (3) states this assumption that the other parameters are also the same.

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