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    Statements: Some villages are towns.

    Some towns are huts. All huts are rivers. Some rivers are tents. Conclusions: I. some tents are towns. II. Some rivers are towns. III. Some huts are villages. In each question below are given two statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only III follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only II and III follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some towns are huts(I) + All huts are rivers(A) ⇒ Some towns are rivers(I) + Some rivers are tents(I) ⇒ No Conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. Some towns are huts(I) + All huts are rivers(A) ⇒ Some towns are rivers(I) ⇒ Conversion ⇒ Some rivers are towns(I). Hence conclusion II follows. Some villages are towns (I) + some towns are huts (I) ⇒ No conclusion. Hence conclusion III does not follow.

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