GATE 2026 AR — Planning – Question 5

General Aptitude · Analytical Aptitude: Logical Reasoning, Deduction and Analogy · 1 mark · Multiple choice

'If his latest movie had been a commercial success, the actor would have made enough money to sponsor his next movie.'

Based only on the above sentence, which one of the following statements is true?

The actor will certainly sponsor his next movie.
His latest movie was a commercial success.
The actor made enough money from his latest movie.
His latest movie was not commercially successful.

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Correct answer: (D) His latest movie was not commercially successful.

Explanation

“If his latest movie had been …, the actor would have …” is a past counterfactual construction. In the ordinary reading intended here, the commercial success did not occur, so the answer is **D**.

The sentence does not promise sponsorship of the next movie. Nor does failure of this particular condition prove that the actor could not have obtained enough money from some other source. The intended inference comes from the counterfactual wording; an ordinary conditional alone would not allow us to infer that its antecedent is false.

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