Multiple choice

At the end of the year, Besahara Parivar rewards its top performers with cash prizes. When told the fact that the number of top performers receiving these prizes has declined markedly over the past ten years, the Chairman of the company Sarvadhik Besahara responded, “In that case, since our reward criterion at present is inclusion in the top ten percent of our employees, we can also say that the number of employees passed over for these prizes has similarly declined.” Which one of the following is an assumption that would allow Sarvadhik Besahara’s conclusion to be properly drawn?

  1. Policies at Besahara Parivar with regard to hiring employees have not become more lax over the past ten years.

  2. The number of employees at Besahara Parivar has increased over the past ten years.

  3. The criterion used by Besahara Parivar for selecting its prize recipients has remained the same for the past ten years.

  4. The average total productivity figures for Besahara Parivar employees have been declining for the past ten years.

  5. Besahara Parivar calculates its employee’s productivity in the same way as it did ten years ago.
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C Correct answer
Explanation

The conclusion that the number of employees passed over for these prizes has similarly declined is valid only when the criterion for selecting the prize recipients remains the same, something stated very clearly in option (3). Hence option (3) is correct.

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