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) No girl is a parrot.
(b) Sowmya is a girl.
Conclusions:
I. Sowmya is not a parrot.
II. All girls are not Sowmya.
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- Only conclusion I follows
- Only conclusion II follows
- Either conclusion I or II follows
- Neither conclusion I nor II follows
- Only conclusion I follows
Correct Option: A
First Premise is Universal Negative (E-type).
Second Premise is Universal Affirmative (A-type).
Sowmya is a girl.↔ No girl is a parrot.
A + E ⇒ E-type of Conclusion. “Sowmya is not a parrot.”
This is Conclusion I.
