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    Statements:  Only a few Pen are Pencils.

    No Pencil is Rubber. Only a few Pencils are Sharpner. Only a few Sharpner are Eraser. Conclusions: I. Some Sharpner can never be Pen. II. All Sharpner being Pencil is a possibility. In each of the questions below few statements are given followed by few 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.
    A If only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B If only conclusion II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C If either conclusion I or II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D If neither conclusion I nor II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E If both conclusions I and II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Alternative Method: Some Pen are Pencils (I) + Some Pencils are Sharpner (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. Some Pencils are Sharpner (I) → Probable conclusion → All Sharpner may be Pencils (A). Hence conclusion II follows.

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