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    Question

    Statements:All Flowers are Fruits.Only a

    few Fruits are Vegetables.No Vegetable is Carrot.Conclusions:I. All Flowers can be Vegetables.II. Some Fruits are not Carrots.III. Some Carrots are Flowers. 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 disr egarding 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 II and conclusion III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of the conclusions follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    All Flowers are Fruits (A) + Only a few Fruits is Vegetables (I) → Probable conclusion → All Flowers can be Vegetables (A). Hence conclusion I follows.

    Only a few Fruits is Vegetables (I) + No Vegetable is Carrot (E) → Some Fruits are not Carrots (O). Hence conclusion II follows.

    All Flowers are Fruits (A) + Only a few Fruits is Vegetables (I) → No conclusion. Hence conclusion III does not follow.

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