Question
Decision Making Question on Verbal Reasoning
Direction: Read the following scenario and answer the THREE questions that follow.
Dhan, a poor but enterprising 15-year-old, resided in the world's largest slum in a metropolitan city, along with her widowed mother. The densely packed slum housed about a million people, mostly in rickety one room tenements, connected by labyrinthine lanes and by-lanes. Dhan's mother worked intermittently as a daily wager in a small savoury factory. For a 15-year-old, Dhan's life was hectic. She spends two hours every day in fetching water for the household, packing breakfast and lunch for her mother. In addition, she had to prepare supper. On her mother's insistence, Dhan also attended an evening bridge school run by an NGO. Dhan's dream was to provide a comfortable life to her mother and take her family out of poverty. Of late, Dhan observed that the customers to a nearby tea-cum-savoury stall (TCS), were mostly the slum dwellers, who thronged the stall for its low prices and lack of alternatives. Further, Dhan gathered that the TCS could not cater to all of its customers, and the owner still made a neat Rs.800 profit per day. Dhan saw that a probable first step towards her family's economic independence could be to own her own TCS.
From the following, choose the BEST option that will increase Dhan's chances of realising her dream of starting a venture?
Request mother to stop working and be a partner in the new venture
Hire someone at Rs.10 per day to fetch water for the household
Request mother to pack her own breakfast and lunch
Stop going to the bridge school
Request mother to fetch water for the household
Request mother to stop working and be a partner in the new venture
Solution
Since Dhan's mother is already working in a small savoury factory, it would be logical to request her to stop working and be a partner in the new venture. This would help Dhan set up the new venture soon without spending extra money to get someone to help her.
Hence, the correct answer is A.