Question
Statements : No painting is a pencil. Some
pencils are drawings. All drawings are sketches. Conclusions : I. Some sketches are drawings. II. Some drawings are not paintings. III. All pencils being sketches is a possibility. In each of the questions below are given three statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. 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
All drawings are sketches (A) ⇒ Conversion ⇒ Some sketches are drawings (I). Hence, conclusion I follows. No painting is a pencil(E) + Some pencils are drawings(I) Some drawings are not paintings(O*). Hence, conclusion II follows. Some pencils are drawings(I) + All drawings are sketches(A) ⇒ Some pencils are sketches(I) ⇒ Probable conclusion ⇒ All pencils may be sketches(A). Hence, conclusion III follows. 
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