Critical Reasoning (CR) | A purse containing 32 ancient gold coins that had been minted in Moroc

­As a solver, the very first step is to figure out what the examiner wants out of you. The examiner wants you to choose an answer option that is most strongly supported by the statements. Each answer option is a hypothesis as indicated by the stem of the question. Now that your answer option must be 100 percent supported/validated by the para, you shall read and understand the statements. Let's state thefacts:

Fact#1 -> 32 ancient gold coins were minted inMorocco.

Fact#2 -> The 32 coins were discovered in the ruins of an ancient Jordaniancity.

Fact#3 -> This Jordanian city is some 4,000 kms to the east ofMorocco.

Fact #4 -> When the discovery happened, Jordanian city was an important trading center along the trade route linking China andEurope.

Fact#5 -> The Jordanian city was also a stopover for pilgrims on the route between Morocco andMecca.

Fact #6 -> The purse of a trader in the Jordanian city would probably have contained a more diverse set of coins.
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Statistics : Posted by sudharsanbalaji • on 03 Jul 2018, 11:17 • Replies 5 • Views 7786

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