Question

    Statements: Some actor is director. All

    director is producer. No producer is composer. Every composer is package. Conclusions: I. Some composer being director is a possibility. II. All director can be package. III. Mostly package is producer. 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 III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion II and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Only conclusion I and conclusion II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All director is producer (A) + No producer is composer (E) → No director is composer (E) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion I does not follow. All director is producer (A) + No producer is composer (E) → No director is composer (E) + Every composer is package (A) → Some package are not director (O*) → Probable conclusion→ All director can be package (A). Hence conclusion II follows. No producer is composer (E) + Every composer is package (A) → Some package are not producer (O*). Hence conclusion III does not follow.

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