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 14

Statements: Some films are clouds
All rats are clouds
Some clouds are chairs
Conclusions: I. No film is chair
II. Some rats are films
III. Some clouds are rats
IV. Some chairs are rats

Solution

We use elimination in this syllogism. ie we draw an exception to contradict the conclusions. This diagram below contradicts I, II and IV. Conclusion II holds in various diagrams and can't be contradicted. So, only conclusion II is implied. Since none of the options shows that, we choose (e) None of these.