Instruction — “Do not hold the cellphone or keep it in your pocket if you are very close to fuel fumes.”\nQuestion — Which conclusion necessarily follows from this safety instruction?

Difficulty: Easy

Correct Answer: if only conclusion I follows

Explanation:


Introduction / Context:
A safety instruction warns against keeping/using a cellphone near fuel fumes. We must infer what the instruction presupposes or implies, without adding unrelated technical claims about device materials.



Given Data / Assumptions:


  • The instruction links proximity to fuel fumes with a prohibition on holding/carrying a cellphone.
  • It is framed to prevent risk.


Concept / Approach:
Safety warnings generally imply a non-zero risk that the warned-against action could cause harm under those conditions. Here, it implies a possibility that a cellphone might ignite vapours (e.g., via spark, battery, electronics), hence the caution.



Step-by-Step Solution:


Conclusion I (“There is a possibility that cellphones could ignite fires”): This is the risk signal the instruction conveys. Follows.Conclusion II (“Cellphone is made from highly inflammable substances”): This is not implied; the risk concerns ignition sources and vapours, not that the phone’s materials are highly inflammable.


Verification / Alternative check:
Even if a phone’s casing is not highly inflammable, ignition risk can remain due to electrical behaviour around flammable vapours. Thus I follows while II does not.



Why Other Options Are Wrong:


Any option endorsing II adds a claim absent from the instruction.


Common Pitfalls:
Confusing “can ignite vapours” with “is itself highly inflammable.”



Final Answer:
if only conclusion I follows

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