Question
Statement :Â Â Â Â Â Â Â All flowers are thorns. Some flowers are leaves. Conclusion:
I. No leaf is a thorn.
II. Some thorns are leaves.
In this question, two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II have been given. 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.
Solution
Some flowers are leaves (I) → Conversion → Some leaves are flowers (I) + All flowers are thorns (A) → Some leaves are thorns (I) → Conversion → Some thorns are leaves (I). Hence conclusion II follows but conclusion I does not follow.
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