Consider the following statements:1.The Red Sea receives very little precipitation in any form.2.No water enters the Red Sea from rivers.Which of the statements given above is/are correct ?

1. A

   1 only

   1 only. Statement 2 is also keyed: negligible river inflow.

2. B

   2 only

   2 only. Statement 1 is also keyed: very little precipitation.

3. C

   Both 1 and 2

   Both. Arid basin; almost no river discharge into the Red Sea.

4. D

   Neither 1 nor 2

   Neither. Both statements hold on this paper.

Summary. Official key is (c) both. The Red Sea sits in an arid belt with very little rainfall. No major rivers empty into it; water exchange is mainly through the Bab el-Mandeb and the Suez Canal. High evaporation, not river input, shapes its salinity.