ibps-so 2016 · Question 58 of 394

Statement : The regional o ce of a bank has advised all the branches under it to keep at least two of their counters open throughout the lunch hour, the number of the customers visiting the branches between one and two in the afternoon having been found upon a survey to be the highest of any hour of the working day. Conclusions : I. Customers visit the branches of that bank during the lunch hour in large numbers. II. The keeping open of the counters during the lunch hour is likely to reduce the time for which a customer of those branches has to wait at that hour.

1. AOnly conclusion I follows
2. BOnly conclusion II follows
3. CEither conclusion I or conclusion II follows
4. DNeither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
5. EBoth conclusion I and conclusion II follow Directions (Q59–Q64) : Every question of this set puts a question and sets under it two statements numbered I and II. What is asked of you is not the answer to the question itself but a judgement upon the statements, namely whether what they furnish is enough to settle the question. Go through both of them before you commit yourself, treat as given nothing whatever beyond what they actually say, and mark your answer accordingly.Correct