Read the information provided and answer the questions which follow.
Given an input, a coding machine generates pass codes everyday as follows:
Input : my bag carries no more than ten books
Pass codes :
Batch I : more my than bag ten carries books no
Batch II : bag ten than carries rny books more no
Batch III : my bag books ten more than no carries
Batch IV : ten more books than bag no my carries and so on.
The first batch timing is 9.30 AM and each batch is of one hour's duration. There is a rest period of one hour after the work for the fourth batch is over.
ln the following question, two statements are given followed by four conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true, decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements:
Statements: Some rivers are plateau. No plateau is mountain.
Conclusions:
I. Some plateau are rivers.
II.Some mountains are rivers.
III.Some rivers are not mountains.
IV. All mountains are rivers.
The given statements can be represented in the following basic diagram
From the above,
Conclusion I, affirmative, follows. Conclusion II, affirmative, does not follow. Conclusion III, negative, follows.Conclusion IV, affirmative, does not follow. Here, a negative conclusion follows from the basic diagram. The negation of it is “All rivers are mountains”. This cannot be represented in any alternate diagram. Hence, only I and III follow.
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