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The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Mass production has increased the tendency to view things as useful rather than delightful. S6: Indeed a lowering of quality usually results when mass production is substituted for more primitive methods. P: These various things share nothing with the buttons except money value. Q: All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and many other things. R: Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons: however excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own use. S: And it is not even the money value of the buttons that is important to you: what is important is profit which may be increased by lowering their quality. The correct sequence should be

The following question consists of six sentences of a passage. The first and the sixth sentences are given in the beginning as S1 and S6. The middle four sentences in each have been jumbled up and labelled P, Q, R and S. You are required to find the proper sequence of the four sentences and mark your response accordingly. S1: Mass production has increased the tendency to view things as useful rather than delightful. S6: Indeed a lowering of quality usually results when mass production is substituted for more primitive methods. P: These various things share nothing with the buttons except money value. Q: All the rest you wish to exchange for food, shelter, and many other things. R: Suppose you are a manufacturer of buttons: however excellent your buttons may be, you do not want more than a few for your own use. S: And it is not even the money value of the buttons that is important to you: what is important is profit which may be increased by lowering their quality. The correct sequence should be Correct Answer R Q P S

The given paragraph is about mass production, so an example of a manufacturer is given in statement R.

The desired decisions of a manufacturer are mentioned in R and Q.

Q is linked to P because the phrase 'these various things' in sentence P denotes food, shelter, etc. 

P is then followed by S because the discussion of money value is taken forward. The correct order is RQPS.

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