Question

    Statements: No construction is building.

    No building is foundation. Every foundation is apartment. Conclusions: I. Some apartment are not building. II. Some foundation being construction is a possibility. In the question below there are three statements followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the three statements disregarding commonly known facts  .
    A Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    No building is foundation (E) + All foundation is apartment (A) → Some apartment are not building (O*). Hence conclusion I follows. No construction is building (E) + No building is foundation (E) → Probable conclusion → Some foundation may be construction (I). Hence conclusion II follows.

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