Direction: In each of the following questions, two statements are given followed by two/four conclusions I, II, III and IV. You have to consider the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.
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Statements:
(a) All pens are papers.
(b) No eraser is a paper.
Conclusions:
I. No eraser is a pen.
II. Some papers are pens.
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- Both Conclusions I and II follow.
- Only Conclusion I follows.
- Only Conclusion II follows.
- Neither Conclusion I nor II follows.
Correct Option: A
(i) All pens are papers → Universal Affirmative (A-type).
(ii) Some houses are lakes → Particular Affirmative (I-type).
(iii) No eraser is paper → Universal Negative (E-type).
(iv) Some erasers are not papers → Particular Negative (O-type).
All pens are papers. ↔ No paper is an eraser.
A + E ⇒ E-type of Conclusion. “No pen is an eraser”.
Conclusion I is Converse of it.
Conclusion II is Converse of the first Premise.
