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    Statements: Only a few machine is tool All

    tools are menus Only a few menu is script Conclusions: I. Mostly tool can be script II. All machines can never be menus In the question below there are three statements followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to take the three 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 three statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Either conclusion I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All tool is menu (A) + Some menu are script (I) → Probable Conclusion → All tool can be script (A). Hence conclusion I follows. Some machines are tools (I) + All tool is menu (A) → Some machines are menus (I). Hence conclusion II does not follow.

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