While the life-expectancy gap between men and women has shrunk to five years, the narrowest since
1 946, it is no secret that men still need to pay more attention to their bodies. Which of the following is the
most suitable reason for the above?

• A. Men largely define themselves by their work, which adds to stress and to being disconnected from their
  emotional side.
• B. Mentend to drink and smoke more than women and generally tend to have less healthy lifestyles.
• C. Men tend to join in fearless, risky, dangerous behavior more often than women.
• D. Men do not seek medical help as often as women.
• E. Men do not accept that they are sick and need help.

The students of a class are playing a game. They have to pass a parcel. The following can pass the
parcel to each other.
M and N M and O O and R R and T R and U T and P P and S P can pass the parcel to N but N cannot
pass it to P.
There cannot be any other way of passing the parcel.
If M and O are temporarily not allowed to pass the parcel to each other then the parcel cannot be passed
from

• A. P to M
• B. N to S
• C. N to M
• D. P to S
• E. R to M

Most economists in the United States seem captivated by spell of the free market. Consequently, nothing
seems good or normal that does not accord with the requirements of the free market.
A price that is determined by the seller or for that matter, established by anyone other than the aggregate
of consumers seems pernicious, accordingly, it requires a major act of will to think of price fixing (the
determination of prices by the seller) as both "normal" and having a valuable economic function. In fact,
price-fixing is normal in all industrialized societies because the industrial system itself provides, as an
effortless consequence of its own development, the price-fixing that requires, Modern industrial planning
requires and rewards great size. Hence a comparatively small number of large firms will be competing for
the same group of consumers. That each large firm will act with consideration of its own needs and thus
avoid selling its products for more than its competitors charge is commonly recognized by advocates of
free-markets economic theories. But each large firms will also act with full consideration of the needs that
it has in common with the other large firms competing for the same customers. Each large firm will thus
avoid significant price cutting, because price cutting would be prejudicial to the common interest in a
stable demand for products. Most economists do not see price-fixing when it occurs because they expect
it to be brought about by a number of explicit agreements among large firms; it is not.
More over those economists who argue that allowing the free market to operate without interference is the
most efficient method of establishing prices have not considered the economies of non socialist countries
other than the United States. These economies employ intentional price-fixing usually in an overt fashion.
Formal price fixing by cartel and informal price fixing by agreements covering the members of an industry
are common place. Were there something peculiarly efficient about the free market and inefficient about
price fixing, the countries that have avoided the first and used the second would have suffered drastically
in their economic development. There is no indication that they have.
Socialist industry also works within a frame work of controlled prices. In early 1970's, the Soviet Union
began to give firms and industries some of the flexibility in adjusting prices that a more informal evolution
has accorded the capitalist system. Economists in the United States have hailed the change as a return to
the free market. But Soviet firms are no more subject to prices established by free market over which they
exercise little influenced than are capitalist firms.
The passage provides Information that would answer which of the following questions about price-fixing?
I. What are some of the ways in which prices can be fixed?
II. For what products is price-fixing likely to be more profitable than the operation of the free market?
III. Is price-fixing more common in socialist industrialized societies or in non socialist industrialized
societies?

• A. II and III only
• B. I, II and III
• C. I and II only
• D. I only
• E. III only

In a lottery a person chooses 6 different numbers from 1 to 20. If these numbers match with the six
numbers chosen by the lottery committee then he wins the lottery. What is his probability of winning the
prize?

• A. 1/19380
• B. 1/3876
• C. 1/1615
• D. 1/6460
• E. 1/38760