Question

Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without pre-soaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be pre-soaked.

Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?

विकल्प

• Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish

• There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking

• A dish's appearance is as important as its taste

• None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be pre-soaked

Answer 1

Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish

Explanation:

According to the argument, beans are plumper when they are prepared without pre-soaking. So, when the quality is more important then pre-soaking should be avoided. The assumption here is that plumper beans are of better quality. Thus, 'Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish' is correct.