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  • Statements: All terrorists are guilty. All terrorists are criminals.

    Conclusions:

    1. Either all criminals are guilty or all guilty are criminals.
    2. Some guilty persons are criminals.
    3. Generally criminals are guilty.
    4. Crime and guilt go together.


  • Options
  • A. Only I follows
  • B. Only I and III follow
  • C. Only II follows
  • D. Only II and IV follow

  • Correct Answer
  • Only II follows 

    Explanation
    Since the middle term 'terrorists' is distributed twice in the premises, the conclusion cannot be universal. So, it follows that 'Some guilty persons are criminals'. Thus, II holds.

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    • 1. Statements: Some tables are TVs. Some TVs are radios.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some tables are radios.
      2. Some radios are tables.
      3. All radios are TVs.
      4. All TVs are tables.


    • Options
    • A. None follows
    • B. All follow
    • C. Only I and III follow
    • D. Only II and IV follow
    • Discuss
    • 2. Statements: Some clothes are marbles. Some marbles are bags.

      Conclusions:

      1. No cloth is a bag.
      2. All marbles are bags.
      3. Some bags are clothes.
      4. No marble is a cloth.


    • Options
    • A. Only either I or IV follows
    • B. Only either I or II follows
    • C. None follows
    • D. Only either I or III follows
    • Discuss
    • 3. Statements: All politicians are honest. All honest are fair.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some honest are politicians.
      2. No honest is politician.
      3. Some fair are politicians.
      4. All fair are politicians.


    • Options
    • A. None follows.
    • B. Only I follows.
    • C. Only I and II follow.
    • D. Only I and III follow
    • Discuss
    • 4. Statements: All aeroplanes are trains. Some trains are chairs.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some aeroplanes are chairs.
      2. Some chairs are aeroplanes.
      3. Some chairs are trains.
      4. Some trains are aeroplanes.


    • Options
    • A. None follows
    • B. Only I and II follow
    • C. Only II and III follow
    • D. Only III and IV follow
    • Discuss
    • 5. Statements: Some bags are pockets. No pocket is a pouch.

      Conclusions:

      1. No bag is a pouch.
      2. Some bags are not pouches.
      3. Some pockets are bags.
      4. No pocket is a bag,


    • Options
    • A. None follows
    • B. Only I and III follow
    • C. Only II and III follow
    • D. Only either I or IV follows
    • E. All follow
    • Discuss
    • 6. Statements: Some books are pens. No pen is pencil.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some pens are books.
      2. Some pencils are books.
      3. Some books are not pencils.
      4. All pencils are books.


    • Options
    • A. Only I follows
    • B. Only II and III follow
    • C. Only I and III follow
    • D. Only I and II follow
    • Discuss
    • 7. Statements: Some bottles are drinks. All drinks are cups.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some bottles are cups.
      2. Some cups are drinks.
      3. All drinks are bottles.
      4. All cups are drinks.


    • Options
    • A. Only I and II follow
    • B. Only II and III follow
    • C. Only II and IV follow
    • D. Only III and IV follow
    • E. Only I and IV follow
    • Discuss
    • 8. Statements: Some houses are offices. Some offices are schools.

      Conclusions:

      1. Some schools are houses.
      2. Some offices are houses.
      3. No house is school.
      4. Some schools are offices.


    • Options
    • A. Only II and III follow
    • B. Only I and IV follow
    • C. Only either III or IV, and I follow
    • D. Only II and IV and either I or III follow.
    • Discuss
    • 9. Statements: Some taxis have horns. Some taxis have lights.

      Conclusions:

      1. Every taxi has either horn or light.
      2. Some taxis have neither light nor horn.
      3. Some taxis have horns as well as lights.
      4. No taxi has horn as well as light.


    • Options
    • A. Only I and II follow
    • B. Only II and III follow
    • C. Only II and IV follow
    • D. Either III or IV follows
    • E. All follow
    • Discuss
    • 10. Statements:

      All fruits are vegetables. All pens are vegetables. All vegetables are rains.

      Conclusions:

      1. All fruits are rains.
      2. All pens are rains.
      3. Some rains are vegetables.


    • Options
    • A. None follows
    • B. Only I and II follow
    • C. Only II and III follow
    • D. Only I and III follow
    • E. All follow
    • Discuss


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