Question

    Statements: Only a few organisations are

    employees. All employees are employer. Some employer are supervisors. Only a few supervisors are wages. Conclusions: I. Some employer are wages. II. Some employees being supervisors is a possibility. III. Some employer are organisations. In the question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be in 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.
    A Both conclusion II and III follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion I follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only conclusion III follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both conclusion I and II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the above. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some employer are supervisors (I) + Some supervisors are wages (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. All employees are employer (A) + Some employer are supervisors (I) → Probable conclusion → Some employees may be supervisors (I). Hence conclusion II follows. Some organisations are employees (I) + All employees are employer (A) → Some organisations are employer (I) → Conversion → Some employer are organisations (I). Hence conclusion III follows.

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