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Answer Questions 1 to 5 on the basis of the information given below:

K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, U and W are the only ten members in a department. There is a proposal to form a team from within the members of the department, subject to the following conditions:

A team must include exactly one among P, R, and S.
A team must include either M or Q, but not both.
If a team includes K, then it must also include L, and vice versa.
If a team includes one among S, U, and W, then it must also include the other two.
L and N cannot be members of the same team.
L and U cannot be members of the same team.

The size of a team is defined as the number of members in the team.

What could be the size of a team that includes K?

In how many ways a team can be constituted so that the team includes N?

What would be the size of the largest possible team?

Who can be a member of a team of size 5?

Who cannot be a member of a team of size 3?

Directions for Questions 6 to 10: Each question has a set of four sequentially ordered statements. Each statement can be classified as one of the following:

1. Facts, which deal with pieces of information that one has heard, seen or read, and which are open to discovery or verification (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘F’).

2. Inferences, which are conclusions drawn about the unknown, on the basis of the known (the answer option indicates such a statement with an ‘I’).

3. Judgments, which are opinions that imply approval or disapproval of persons, objects, situations and occurrences in the past, the present or the future (the answer option indicates such a statement with a ‘J’).

Select the answer option that best describes the set of four statements.

1. So much of our day-to-day focus seems to be on getting things done, trudging our way through the tasks of living—it can feel like a treadmill that gets you nowhere; where is the childlike joy?

2. We are not doing the things that make us happy; that which brings us joy; the things that we cannot wait to do because we enjoy them so much.

3. This is the stuff that joyful living is made of— identifying your calling and committing yourself wholeheartedly to it.

4. When this happens, each moment becomes a celebration of you; there is a rush of energy that comes with feeling completely immersed in doing what you love most.

1. Given the poor quality of service in the public sector, the HIV/AIDS affected should be switching to private initiatives that supply anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) at a low cost.?

2. The government has been supplying free drugs since 2004, and 35000 have benefited up to now—though the size of the affected population is 150 times this number.

3. The recent initiatives of networks and companies like AIDSCare Network, Emcure, Reliance- Cipla-CII, would lead to availability of much needed drugs to a larger number of affected people.

4. But how ironic it is that we should face a perennial shortage of drugs when India is one of the world’s largest supplies of generic drugs to the developing world.

1. According to all statistical indications, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has managed to keep pace with its ambitious goals.

2. The Mid-day Mean Scheme has been a significant incentive for the poor to send their little ones to school, thus establishing the vital link between healthy bodies and healthy minds.

3. Only about 13 million children in the age group of 6 to 14 years are out of school.

4. The goal of universalization of elementary education has to be a pre-requisite for the evolution and development of our country.

1. We should not be hopelessly addicted to an erroneous belief that corruption in India is caused by the crookedness of Indians.

2. The truth is that we have more red tape—we take eighty-nine days to start a small business, Australians take two.

3. Red tape leads to corruption and distorts a people’s character.

4. Every red tape procedure is a point of contact with an official, and such contacts have the potential to become opportunities for money to change hands.

1. Inequitable distribution of all kinds of resources is certainly one of the strongest and most sinister sources of conflict.

2. Even without war, we know that conflicts continue to trouble us—they only change in character.

3. Extensive disarmament is the only insurance for our future; imagine the amount of resources that can be released and redeployed.

4. The economies of the industrialized western world derive 20% of their income from the sale of all kinds of arms.