10th Class Mental Ability Logical Reasoning Question Bank Logic

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    Direction: In each of the following questions two statements are given followed by two three or four conclusions numbered I, II, III, and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.
    Statements: All farmers are soldiers. Some soldiers are athletes. Conclusions:
    I. Some athletes are farmers.
    II. No athlete is farmer.

    A) Only conclusion I follows            

    B) Only conclusion II follows

    C) Either I or II follows     

    D) Neither I nor II follows

    E) Both I and II follows

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    Explanation Option [c] is correct. Since the middle term -soldiers? is not distributed even once in the premises, no definite conclusion follows. However, I and II involve only the extreme terms and form a complementary pair. So, either I or II follows.      


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