Question

Questioning 5,000 girls across Delhi about the various taxes they pay at their favourite restaurants, the respondents put the VAT at $12.5\%$ when it actually cost $14.5\%$. They believed the service charge is another tax imposed h the state or central government when it is actually purely imposed by the restaurant for rendering its service to you; respondents estimated service charge to be at $2.5\%$ when it may vary from $4-10\%$. The Service tax was estimated to be another $2.5\%$ when it is actually $12.36\%$ and payable on $40\%$ of your total bill (excluding taxes), which equals $4.96\%$.

• A. According to a recent, survey, girls in Delhi are not used to paying for their own restaurant bills.
• B. According to a recent survey, Delhi restaurants charge more taxes than in other states in India.
• C. According to a recent survey, Girls in Delhi are clearly ignorant about the taxes charged by the restaurants for the food and services.
• D. According to a recent survey, girls in Delhi hold a sense of disgust on knowing petty issues like restaurant taxes and ignore them deliberately.

Answer 1

The correct option is C According to a recent survey, Girls in Delhi are clearly ignorant about the taxes charged by the restaurants for the food and services.

The passage shows that the girls in Delhi are not aware of the different taxes charged by restaurants. They believe them to be lower than they actually are. This idea is covered in (III).
(I) is incorrect because paying for themselves or not, point is if they know these taxes or not. (II) is incorrect because taxes charged in Delhi and other states. (IV) is incorrect because the passage does not talk of a sense of disgust by Delhi girls, neither does it suggest that they "deliberately" ignore the taxes' figures.