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    Statements: All Tenants are Houses. All

    Houses are Huts. No Hut is an Apartment. Conclusions: I. All houses can be Apartment. II. No Apartment is a Tenant. 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.
    A Only conclusion I follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Either conclusion I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both conclusions I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Neither conclusion I nor II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All Houses are Huts (A) + No Hut is an Apartment (E) → No House is an Apartment (E) → Probable conclusion → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. All Tenants are Houses (A) + All Houses are Huts (A) → All Tenants are Huts (A) + No Hut is an Apartment (E) → No Tenant is an Apartment (E) → Conversion → No Apartment is a Tenant (E). Hence conclusion II follows.

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