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    Statements: Every Jacket are Shirt.

    >Few Shirt are Trouser. Only a few Trouser are Skirts. Conclusions: I. All Shirt can be Skirts II. Some Trouser are not Skirts III. Some Jacket are Trouser  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

    Few Shirt are Trouser (I) + Only a few Trouser are Skirts (I) → Probable conclusion → All Shirt can be Skirts (A). Hence conclusion I follows. Only a few Trouser are Skirts → Some Trouser are not Skirts (O). Hence conclusion II follows. Every Jacket are Shirt (A) + Few Shirt are Trouser (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion III does not follow.

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