Question

    Statements: A few gifts are surprises.

    Every surprise is cake. None of the cakes are balloons. Conclusions: I. A few gifts are not balloons. II. No balloon is surprise. In the question below there are four statements followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to take the four given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the four statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both conclusions I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    A few gifts are surprises. (I)  + Every surprise is cake (A) → Some gifts are cake (I) + None of the cakes are balloons (E) → Some gifts are not balloons (O). Hence conclusion I follows. Every surprise is cake (A) + None of the cakes are balloons (E) → No surprise is balloon (E) → Conversion → No balloon is surprise (E). Hence conclusion II follows.

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