AILET 2019 BA LLB Question Paper with answer key for online practice

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Directions (Q. 136 - Q. 140): Read the following short passages and choose the best answers to the questions that follow each passage.

Question : 139 of 150

Marks: +1, -0

The average amount of overtime per month worked by an employee in the design division of the Diva Corporation is 18 hours. Most employees of Diva Corporation work in the design division. Furthermore, the average amount of overtime per month per employee in the company generally does not fluctuate much from month to month.
Therefore, each month, most employees of the Diva Corp. almost certainly work at least some overtime.
The argument is most vulnerable to criticism on which of the following grounds ?

It confuses a claim from which the argument’s conclusion about the Diva Corp. would necessarily follow with a claim that would follow from the argument’s conclusion only with a high degree of probability.
It overlooks the possibility that even if most employees of the corporation work some overtime each month, any one corporate employee may, in some months, work no overtime.
It takes for granted that the design division is a typical division of the corporation with regard to the average amount of overtime its employees work each month.
It overlooks the possibility that even if, on average, a certain amount of overtime is worked by the members of some group, many members of that group may work no overtime at all.

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