In each of the question below are given four 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 to be at variance with commonly known facts Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusion logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts
Statements:Some chairs are handles
All handles are pots
All pots are mats
Some mats are buses
Conclusions:I.Some buses are handles.
II.Some mats are chairs.
III.No bus is a handle
IV.Some mats are handles
The Venn diagram for the syllogism is as shown below:
Conclusions 1 and 3 are complimentary ie. one of them is necessarily true universally and both can't be true at the same time. Hence either conclusion I or conclusion III is implied.
From the diagram both the conclusions 2 and 4 are implied. Hence, the correct answer is (e)
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