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    Question

    Statements: All glasses are plates. Some plates

    are bowls. Conclusions:I. Some bowls are glasses. II. No bowl is a glass.  In each of the questions below are given two 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. Give answer
    A Only I follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Either I or II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Neither I nor II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Both I and II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All glasses are plates(A) + Some plates are bowls (I) ⇒No conclusion. Hence conclusion I and II does not follow but they will form a complementary pair. Hence either I or II follows. Alternate Method:

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