📢 Too many exams? Don’t know which one suits you best? Book Your Free Expert 👉 call Now!

    Question

    Statements:  Only a few Laptops are

    Notebooks. No Notebook is Computer. Only a few Notebooks are Bars. Only a few Bars are Tools. Conclusions: I. Some Bars can never be Laptop. II. All Bars being Notebook is a possibility. In each of the questions below some statements are given followed by some Conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even, if they seem to be at variance from 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.
    A If only conclusion I follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B If only conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C If either conclusion I or II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D If neither conclusion I nor II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E If both conclusions I and II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some Laptops are Notebooks (I) + Some Notebooks are Bars (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. Some Notebooks are Bars (I) → Probable conclusion → All Bars may be Notebooks (A). Hence conclusion II follows.

    Practice Next
    More Syllogism Questions

    Relevant for Exams:

    ask-question

    Not sure which exam is best for you Talk to our expert

    Get My Free Call