Question

In each of the following questions below, two/three statements are given followed by conclusions/group of conclusions numbered I and II. You have to assume all the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given two conclusions logically follows from the information given in the statements.

Statements:-
All songs are poems.
All poems are rhymes.
No rhyme is a paragraph.

Conclusions:-
I. No song is a paragraph.
II. No poem is a paragraph.

• A. Only conclusion I follows
• B. Only conclusion II follows
• C. Either conclusion I or conclusion II follows
• D. Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
• E. Both conclusion I and II follow

Answer 1

The correct option is E Both conclusion I and II follow

Mediate term of the following statement
All songs are poems. (A-type)
All poems are rhymes. (A-type)
$A+A\to A-type$
All songs are rhymes
Another mediate term is
All poems are rhymes. (A-type)
No rhymes is a paragraph. (E-type)
$A+E\to E-type$
No poem is a paragraph
(Conclusion II follows)
Another possible mediate term
From Eq. (i) All songs are thymes (A-type)
No rhyme is a paragraph. (E-type)
$A+E\to E-type$
No song is a paragraph.


Both conclusions I and II follow.