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 teachers are experienced.
(b) Some teachers are spinsters.
Conclusions:
I. Some experienced are spinsters.
II. Some spinsters are experienced.
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- Only conclusion II follows
- Either conclusion I or II follows
- Both conclusion I and II follow
- Only conclusion I follows
Correct Option: C
First Premise is Universal Affirmative (A-type).
Second Premise is Particular Affirmative (I-type).
Some spinsters are teachers. ↔ All teachers are experienced.
I + A ⇒ I-type of Conclusion “Some spinsters are experienced.”
This is Conclusion II.
Conclusion I is Converse of it.
