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    Conclusions: I. All Writers can be Novels.

    II. Some Novels are not Magazines. Statements: In the question below some statements are given two conclusions followed by some statements. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the following statement is true for given conclusions.
    A Some Magazines are Journals. All Journals are Novels. Only a few Novels are Writers. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B All Writers are Journals. All Journals are Magazines. No Journal is a Novel. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Some Journals are not Magazines. No Writer is a Novel. Some Novels are Journals. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D No Magazine is a Writer. All Novels are Journals. Only a few Novels are Magazines. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    From Statement I. Only a few Novels are Writers → All Writers can be Novels (A). Hence conclusion I follows. Some Magazines are Journals (I) + All Journals are Novels (A) → Some Magazines are Novels (I). Hence conclusion II does not follow. From Statement II. All Writers are Journals (A) + No Journal is a Novel (E) → No Writers is a Novel (E) → Probable conclusion → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. No Journal is a Novel (E) → Conversion → No Novel is a Journal (E) + All Journals are Magazines (A) → Some Magazine are not Novels (O*). Hence conclusion II does not follow. From Statement III. No Writer is a Novel (E) → Conversion → No Novel is a Writer (E). Hence conclusion I does not follow. Some Novels are Journals (I) + Some Journals are not Magazines (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion II does not follow. From Statement IV. Only a few Novels are Magazines (I) + No Magazines is a Writers (E) → Some Novels are not Writers (O) → Probable conclusion → All Writers can be Novels (A). Hence conclusion I follows.   Only a few Novels are Magazines → Some Novels are not Magazines (O). Hence conclusion II follows.

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