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    Statements: Only a few Chairs is Tables.

    Only a few Woods is Chairs. No Wood is Desk. Conclusions: I. Every Chairs can be Woods. II. No Desk is Tables. III. Some Chairs are not Desk. 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 II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion I and conclusion II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion I and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the conclusions follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Only a few Woods is Chairs → All Chairs may be Woods (A). Hence conclusion I follows. No Wood is Desk (E) → Conversion → No Desk is Wood (E) + Only a few Woods is Chairs (I) → Some Chairs are not Desk (O*) + Only a few Chairs is Tables (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion II does not follow but conclusion III follows.

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