Question
Statements : All Beaks are Wings. Only
a few Wings are Cock. Some Cock are not Hens. Conclusions : I. Some Beaks are Cock. II. No Wing is a Hen. In the question below, three statements are given followed by the 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.Solution
All Beaks are Wings (A) + Only a few Wings are Cock (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. Only a few Wings are Cock (I) + Some Cock are not Hens (O) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion II does not follow.
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