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Reasoning Analogy Difficulty: Medium

Directions : In each of the following questions a statement is given, followed by two conclusions. Give answer : Statement : "Everyone desires to buy a personal computer", statement of a college student. Assumptions : I. Personal computers are not a need but a luxury. II. Use of personal computers improves quality of skill. The median wages in the factory is: The image of a knitter as an older woman sitting in a comfortable, old-fashioned living room with a basket of yarn at her feet and a bun in her hair is one of the past. As knitting continues to become more popular and increasingly trendy, it is much more difficult to describe the average knitter. Knitters today might be 18, 28, 40, or 65. They might live in a big urban center and take classes in a knit- ting shop that doubles as a café or they may gather in suburban coffee shops to support one another in knitting and other aspects of life. They could be college roommates knitting in their dorm room or two senior citizens knitting in a church hall. Even men are getting in the act. It would be incredibly difficult to come up with an accurate profile of a contemporary knitter to replace that image of the old woman with the basket of yarn! This paragraph best supports the statement that 123 : 36 :: 221 : ? A is three times as old as B. C was twice-as old as A four years ago. In four years' time, A will be 31. What are the present ages of B and C ?