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Direction: In the question, there given four statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:

Some pencils are jars.

All jars are bottles.

Some bottles are bricks.

All bricks are stones.

Conclusions:

I. Some stones are jars.

II. Some bottles are pencils.

III. Some bricks are jars.

A)  Only I follows

B)  Only II follows

C)  Only III follows

D)  Only II and III follow

E)  None of these

Correct Answer: B

Solution :

(i) All phones are chords \[\to \] Universal Affirmative (A-type).

(ii) Some chords are nets \[\to \] Particular Affirmative (I-type).

(iii) No table is machine \[\to \] Universal Negative (E-type).

(iv) Some tables are not machines Particular \[\to \]Negative (O- type).

                          I + A \[\Rightarrow \] I-type of Conclusion "Some pencils are bottles." Conclusion II is Converse of it. I + A \[\Rightarrow \] I -type of conclusion "some bottles are stones."