CAT Verbal Ability Questions | CAT Para Jumbles questions

CAT/2000

Question . 95

In the following question, the answer choices suggest alternative arrangements of four or more sentences (denoted by A, B, C, D, E, F). Choose the alternative which suggests a coherent paragraph.

A. Both parties use capital and labour in the struggle to secure property rights.

B. The thief spends time and money in his attempt to steal (he buys wire cutters) and the legitimate property owner expends resources to prevent the theft (he buys locks).

C. A social cost of theft is that both the thief and the potential victim use resources to gain or maintain control over the property.

D. These costs may escalate as a type of technological arms race unfolds.

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Method of solving this CAT Verbal Ability Question from Para Jumbles question

(b) Both parties in A refers to the thief and the victim introduced in C. So the link is CA. B explains what both the parties spent in their endeavour to steal/protect. ‘These costs’ refers to what has been discussed in B (time and money for the thief and resources for the victim).