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    Question

    Statements: Only a few Fruit is Colour.

    All Vegetables are Colours. No Vegetable is a Soup. Conclusions: I. Some Vegetables can be Fruits. II. Some Colours can be Soups. III. Some Soups are not Fruits. 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 III 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 II and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the conclusions follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Only a few Fruit is Colour (I) + [All Vegetables are Colours (A) → Conversion] → Some Colours are Vegetables (I) → Probable conclusion → Some Vegetables can be Fruits (I). Hence conclusion I follows but conclusion III does not follow. All Vegetables are Colours (A) → Conversion → Some Colours are Vegetables (I) + No Vegetable is a Soup (E) → Some Colours are not Soups (O) → Probable conclusion → Some Colours can be Soups (I). Hence conclusion II follows.

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