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Prashant Yadav

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Some nails are not pliers is also right

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In each of the question below are given three statements followed by four conclusion numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the three 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 the given conclusions logically follows (s) from  the given statements disregarding commonly known facts. 

Statements:

All saws are nails.

Some saws are hammers.

Some nails are pilers.

Conclusions:

I. Some hammers are pilers.

II. Some nails are saws.

III. Some pilers are hammers.

IV. Some nails are not pilers.

Options:
A) Only II follow. 
B) Only II and III follow.
C) Only I and IV follow.  
D) Only IV follows.
E) None of these.
Solution:
Ans (a)

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· 1 Months ago

Some+No - either or Statements: All saws are nails. Some saws are hammers. Some nails are pilers. Conclusions: I. Some hammers are pilers.(false) II. Some nails are saws.(true) III. Some pilers are hammers.(false) IV. Some nails are not pilers.(false)

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