Instructions

In each question below are given some statements followed by four conclusions numbered I, II, III and IV. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Question 12

Statements: I. All gates are flowers.
Some gates are fruits.
Some flowers are clips.
Conclusions: I. Some flowers are fruits.
II. Some clips are fruits.
III. Some clips are gates.
IV. No flower is fruit.

Solution

For the conclusions, we use elimination by drawing an exception. Conclusion II, III, IV are contradicted by this diagram below. Only conclusion I is valid. We can draw as many diagrams as needed but I is still valid.