Question
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 andII. 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 answe
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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