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Direction: In each question below are given three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer

Statements:     All seconds are hours.

No minute is needle.

Some hours are needles.

Conclusions:    I. All needles being seconds is a possibility. II. Some seconds are hours.

A)  if only conclusion I follows.

B)  if only conclusion II follows.

C)  if either conclusion I or II follows.

D)  if neither conclusion I nor II follows.

E)  if both conclusions I and II follow.

Correct Answer: E

Solution :

 All seconds are hours  + Some hours are needlesNo conclusion. But there exists a possibility of I. Hence conclusion I follows. Again, All seconds are hours  ® conversion ®Some seconds are hours. Hence, conclusion II follows.