Calculating combinations under specific inclusion/exclusion constraints
Question
Which one of the following statements best reflects the central idea of the above passage?
Options
Parents in general may not be of much help when children are on their way to becoming adults.
When children reach adolescence, involvement of parents in their lives is unnecessary.
Modern-day nuclear families are not capable of bringing up children properly.
In modern societies, adolescents tend to be stubborn, disobedient and careless.
Explanation
The passage outlines the structural, psychological friction that arises during adolescence: children seek autonomy , while parents assert power through dogmatic moral guidance [cite: 1725, 1726, 1727, 1798], inadvertently driving children to act in secret[cite: 1727, 1798]. This dynamic implies that traditional parental control mechanisms become counterproductive or unhelpful during this transition phase. Option (a) captures this dynamic in a measured tone, whereas options (b) and (c) introduce extreme or irrelevant structural terms ("unnecessary", "nuclear families") not present in the text.
Answer: (a).
Question details
Year
2024
Paper
CSAT
Question
Q44
Section
Numerical Ability
Sub-topic
Permutations & Combinations
Type
Factual single
Difficulty
Hard
Source hint
Combinatorics word problem
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