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Direction: In each of the following questions, one/two statements are given followed by three conclusions. You have to consider the statements to be true even it 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.

  1. Statements:
    Some ladies are beautiful.
    Some beautiful. are honest.
    All honest are sensitives.
    Conclusion 1: Some sensitives are beautiful.
    Conclusion 2: Some honest are ladies.
    Conclusion 3: Some sensitives are ladies.
    1. None of the Conclusion follows.
    2. Only Conclusion 1 follows.
    3. Only Conclusions 1 and 2 follow.
    4. All Conclusions follow.
Correct Option: B

The first and second Premises are Particular Affirmative (I-type).
The third Premise is Universal Affirmative (A-type).
Some beautifuls are honest. ↔ All honest are sensitives.
I + A ⇒ I-type of Conclusion “Some beautifuls are sensitives.”
Conclusion 1 is Converse of it.



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