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

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