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    Question

    Statements: No painting is a frame. All frames

    are lights. Some lights are canvas. Conclusions: I. No light is a painting. II. Some lights are paintings. In each of the questions below are given two/three statements followed by two 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.
    A if both conclusions I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B if neither conclusion I nor II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C if either conclusion I or II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D if only conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E if only conclusion I follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    No painting is a frame(E) + All frames are lights(A) ⇒ Some lights are not paintings.(O). Hence neither conclusion I nor II follows but they will form a complementary pair. Hence either conclusion I or III follows.

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