Question
Statement : No dog is a cat. All cats are mats. Â 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.
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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