10th Class Mental Ability Logical Reasoning Question Bank Logic

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    Direction: In each of the following questions two statements are given followed by two three or four conclusions numbered I, II, III, and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    Statements: All boats are ships. All balloons are ships. Conclusions:   
    I. Some boats are balloons
    II. Some ships are balloons

    A) Only conclusion I follows                        

    B) Only conclusion II follows

    C) Either conclusion I or II follows    

    D) Neither conclusion I nor II follows

    E) None of these

    Correct Answer: B

    Solution :

    Explanation Option [b] is correct. Since the middle term -ships- is not distributed even once in the premises, no definite conclusion can be drawn. However II is the converse of the second premise so it holds.


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