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Statement: 'Please switch off your mobile phones during the presentation.' — a notice displayed in a seminar hall. Assumptions: I. Ringing mobile phones may disturb the presentation.
II. The participants are likely to be carrying mobile phones. Which assumption(s) is/are implicit?

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  • AOnly assumption II is implicit
  • BOnly assumption I is implicit
  • CNeither assumption is implicit
  • DBoth assumptions I and II are implicit

Step-by-Step Solution

The request presupposes both that participants carry phones (II) and that ringing phones could disturb the presentation (I); otherwise the notice would be pointless. Both are implicit.
Answer: D) Both assumptions I and II are implicit

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