Question

    Statements: Some racks are tables. Some tables

    are chairs. No chair is a book. Conclusions: I. Some racks are chairs. II. All tables being racks is a possibility. III. No book is a chair. In each of the questions below are given three 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. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only I and II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only II and III follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only I and III follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D None follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some racks are tables (I) + Some tables are chair (I) ⇒ no conclusion can be drawn. Hence, conclusion I will not follow. Some racks are tables (I) ⇒ conversion ⇒ Some tables are racks (I). [Probable conclusion] ⇒ A. Hence, conclusion II will follow. No chair is a book(E) ⇒ conversion ⇒ No book is a chair(E). Hence, conclusion III will follow.

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