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    Question

    Statements: Some soldiers are famous. Some

    soldiers are intelligent. All soldiers are honest. All honest persons are kind- hearted. Conclusions: I. Some soldiers are either famous or intelligent. II. Some soldiers are neither famous nor intelligent. III. All intelligent persons are kind-hearted. IV. Some intelligent persons are not kind-hearted. In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II and III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    A All follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Only I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Only I, II and III follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only either I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E None of these Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Only either I or II and either III or IV follow. Neither conclusion I nor II follows from the given statement. However, conclusion I and II makes a complementary pair, hence either conclusion I or II will follow. Neither conclusion III nor IV follows from the given statement. However, conclusion III and IV makes a complementary pair, hence either conclusion III or IV will follow.

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