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    Question

    Statements: Some animal are mammal. Some

    mammal are herbivore. No herbivore is carnivore. Conclusions: I. Some animal are herbivore. II. Some carnivore are mammal. In the questions given below there are two 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. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Either conclusion I or conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Some animal are mammal (I) + Some mammal are herbivore (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. Some mammal are herbivore (I) + No herbivore is carnivore (E) → Some mammal are not carnivore (O). Hence conclusion II does not follow.

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