Question
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.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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