Question
Statements: No poem is a story. All
stories are novels. All novels are articles. Conclusions: I. All articles are stories. II. No article is a poem. III. All novels are poems. In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. 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 given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.Solution
All stories are novels(A) + All novels are articles(A) ⇒ All stories are articles(A) ⇒ Conversion ⇒ Some articles are stories(I).Hence, conclusion I does not follow. No poem is a story(E) + All stories are novels(A) ⇒ Some novels are poem(O*). Hence, conclusion II and III does not follow. ALTERNATE METHOD: 
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