CLAT Sample Paper CLAT Sample Paper-3

Direction: Read the given argument or statement carefully, making any factual assumptions necessary. Then, choose the best answer out of the four choices to the question asked Note that not all the facts given will be relevant for determining the answer.

The owner of a four-storey commercial building discovered termites in the building's first and second floors called an exterminator. The exterminator pumped gas into the walls on both the first and second floors. Due to the exterminator's work, the termites on those floors were killed quickly. Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the validity of the explanation for the speed with which the termites were killed?

A) Even though the exterminator did not pump gas into the walls of the fourth storey, the termites there died as quickly as they did on the first and second storey?s

B) The third floor had no termite infestation

C) The speed at which termites are killed increases as the concentration of an exterminator's gas increases

D) The speed with which the exterminator's gas kills termites drops off sharply as the gas dissipates throughout the building's walls

Correct Answer: A

Solution :

If the termites died on their own, the validity of the argument is weakened since the argument is about the terminator doing the job.