Direction: In the question below, a few statements are given depicting an issue or a problem. You have to assume everything in the statements to be true even if they are at variance from commonly known facts, and on the basis of the information given in the statements, decide which of the suggested courses of action logically follows for pursuing.

Statement: Garbage in this neighborhood probably will not be collected until Thursday this week. Garbage is usually collected here on Wednesdays, and the garbage collectors in this city are extremely reliable. However, Monday was a public holiday, and after a public holiday that falls on a Monday, garbage throughout the city is supposed to be collected one day later than usual.

The statement proceeds by which of the following course of actions?

1
Treating several pieces of irrelevant evidence as though they provide support for the conclusion
2
Indirectly establishing that one thing is likely to occur by directly ruling out all of the alternative possibilities
3
Providing information that allows application of a general rule to a specific case 
4
​Generalizing about all actions of a certain kind on the basis of a description of one such action  
5
Treating something that is probable as though it were inevitable

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