Should the oil companies be allowed to fix the price of petroleum products depending on market conditions? Arguments I. Yes this is the only way to make the oil companies commercially viable. II. No this will put additional burden on the retail prices of essential commodities and will cause lot of hardships to the masses.

In making decisions about important questions, you should be able to distinguish between strong arguments and weak arguments. Strong arguments are those which are both important and directly related to the question. Weak arguments are those which are of minor importance and also may not be directly related to the question or may be related to a trivial aspect of the question. Each question below is followed by two arguments numbered I and II. You have to decide which of the argument is a strong argument and which is a weak argument.