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Vikram: Our vegetable stall takes more money in the evening than in the morning, so we should open only from four o'clock and save the morning rent on the handcart. Meera: We take more in the evening because the people who buy from us in the morning are the very ones who come back at dusk for what they forgot. Shut in the morning and the evening takings will fall as well. Vikram and Meera disagree over which of the following?

Competition practiceLogical / Critical
  • AWhether the stall takes more money in the evening than in the morning
  • BWhether the handcart is charged for by the morning and by the evening separately
  • CWhether the stall should sell vegetables at all
  • DWhether the stall's evening takings would hold up if it did not open in the morning

Step-by-Step Solution

Meera grants the figures — the evening does take more — and objects to the inference Vikram draws from them, holding that the evening trade is fed by the morning trade and would shrink without it. The dispute is therefore about what would happen after the change, not about what happens now. Neither speaker questions how the rent is charged or the business itself.
Answer: D) Whether the stall's evening takings would hold up if it did not open in the morning

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