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    Question

    Statement : No dog is a cat. All cats

    are mats.   Conclusion: I. Some dogs are mats. II. All dogs can never be mats. 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.
    A Only conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion I follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Neither conclusion I and II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Either conclusion I or II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Both conclusion I and II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    No dog is a cat (E) + All cats are mats (A) → Some mats are not dogs (O*). Hence neither conclusion I nor II follows but it will make a complementary pair. Hence either conclusion I or II follows.

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