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    Statements : All intelligent are winners.   Some

    winners are teachers. No teacher is a scholar. Conclusions:I. Some winners are not scholars. II. No scholar is a teacher. III. Some intelligent are not teachers. 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 definitely does not follow logically from the given  statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A If only conclusion I does not follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B If only conclusion II does not follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C If only conclusion III does not follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D If both conclusion I and II do not follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some winners are teachers(I) + No teacher is a scholar(E) ⇒ Some winners are not scholars (O). Hence conclusion I follows. No teacher is a scholar(E) ⇒ Conversion ⇒ No scholar is a teacher(E). Hence conclusion II follows. All intelligent are winners(A) + Some winners are teachers(I) ⇒ No conclusion. Hence conclusion III does not follow. ALTERNATE SOLUTION: Minimal possibility:

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