Question
Statements: Only a few Towels are
Showers. All Showers are Garments. No Garment is a Material. Conclusions: I. Some Towels are not Showers. II. Some Showers can never be Materials. In the question below, three statements are given followed by the conclusions. 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 the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.Solution
Only a few Towels are Showers → Some Towels are not Showers (O) and Some Towels are Showers (I). Hence conclusion I follows. All Showers are Garments (A) + No Garment is a Material (E) → No Shower is a Material (E) → Conversion → Some Showers can never be Materials (O). Hence conclusion II follows.
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