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    Statements:Some pastries are cakes. No cake is a

    pudding. All puddings are sweets. Conclusions:I. Some sweets are not cakes. II. Some pastries are not puddings. In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three 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 given conclusions logically follows from the given  statements disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer
    A If only conclusion I follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B If only conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C If either conclusion I or conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D If neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E If both conclusion I and conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    No cake is a pudding (E) + All puddings are sweets (A) ⇒ some sweets are not cakes (O*). Hence, conclusion I will follow. Some pastries are cakes (I) + No cake is a pudding (E) ⇒ some pastries are not puddings (O). Hence, conclusion II will also follow. ALTERNATE METHOD: Possible cases: In all the cases, I and II both follow.

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