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    Statements: Only Shorts are Skirts. Few

    Shorts are Shirts. All Shirts are Pants. Conclusions: I. Some Shorts are Pants. II. All Skirts being Shirts is not a possibility. In the question below there are some statements followed by some conclusions. 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 definitely follows from the three statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Either conclusion I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Both conclusions I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Neither conclusion I nor II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Few Shorts are Shirts (I) + All Shirts are Pants (A) → Some Shorts are Pants (I). Hence conclusion I follows. Only Shorts are Skirts → All Skirts are Shorts (A) and Skirts can have negative relation with anyone. Hence conclusion II follows.

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