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    Statements: All chocolates are ice-creams.

    All ice-creams are toffees. All toffees are cold-drinks. Conclusions: I. Some cold-drinks are not ice-creams. II. Some toffees are not chocolates. III. Some cold-drinks are not chocolates. 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.
    A Only I and II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only II and III follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only I and III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All ice-creams are toffees(A) + All toffees are cold-drinks (A) ⇒ All ice-creams are cold-drinks (A). Hence conclusion I will not follow. All chocolates are ice-creams(A) + All ice-creams are toffees(A) ⇒ All chocolates are toffees (A). Hence conclusion II will not follow. All chocolates are ice-creams(A) + All ice-creams are toffees(A) ⇒ All chocolates are toffees (A) + All toffees are cold-drinks (A) ⇒ All chocolates are cold-drinks (A). Hence conclusion III will not follow.

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