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    Statements: All Balloon are Cake All Cake

    are Tissue Only a few Cake is Candle Conclusions: I. All Balloon being Candle is a possibility II. Some Tissue being Candle is a possibility In each of the questions below some statements are given followed by two 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. Give answer
    A Only II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Either I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Both I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only I follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All Balloon are Cake (A) + Some Cake is Candle (I) → Probable conclusion →   All Balloon may be Candle (A). Hence conclusion I follows. Only a few Cake is Candle → Some Candle are Cake (I) + All Cake are Tissue (A) → Some Candle are Tissue (I) → Conversion → Some Tissue are Candle (I). Hence conclusion II does not follows.

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