Question

    Statements: Some label is brand. All brand

    is price. No price is promotion. Every promotion is package. Conclusions: I. Some promotion being brand is a possibility. II. All brand can be package. III. Mostly package is price. In the questions given below there are three statements followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to take the three given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions definitely follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion III follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only conclusion I and conclusion II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion II and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Only conclusion I and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All brand is price (A) + No price is promotion (E) → No brand is promotion (E) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. All brand is price (A) + No price is promotion (E) → No brand is promotion (E) + Every promotion is package (A) → Some package are not brand (O*) → Probable conclusion→ All brand can be package (A). Hence conclusion III follows. No price is promotion (E) + Every promotion is package (A) → Some package are not price (O*). Hence conclusion III does not follow.

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