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    Question

    Statements: Each umbrella is cloud. Some

    clouds are road. No cloud is rain. Conclusions: I: No umbrella is rain. II: Some road are umbrellas. In the question below there are three statements followed by two conclusions I and II. 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 logically follows from the three statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A Both conclusion I and conclusion II follow. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only conclusion I follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only conclusion II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the above Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Each umbrella is cloud (A) + No cloud is rain (E) → No umbrella is rain (E). Hence conclusion I follows. Each umbrella is cloud (A) + Some clouds are road (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion II does not follow.

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