Statement:The local citizens group submitted a memorandum

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Direction: In each question below is given a statement followed by two assumptions number I and II.
An assumption is something supposed or taken for granted. You have to consider the statement and the following assumption and decide which of the assumptions is implicit in the statement.

Statement:
The local citizens group submitted a memorandum to the civic authority for allowing them to convert the vacant plot in the locality into a garden at their on cost.
Assumption:
I. The local citizen group may be able to gather enough funds to develop the garden.
II. The civic authority may not accede to the request of the local citizen group.

1. if only assumption I is implicit.
2. if only assumption II is implicit.
3. if either assumption I or II is implicit.
4. if neither assumption I nor II is implicit.
5. if both assumption I and II are implicit.

Correct Option: A

Assumption I is implicit in "at their own cost". Assumption II is contrary to what the citizens may have assumed.