Question

In each of the following questions, two statements are given followed by two conclusions. You have to consider the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions if any, follow from the given statements.

Statements
Some books are magazines.
Some magazines are novels.

Conclusions
I. Some books are novels.
II. Some novels are magazines.

• A. Only conclusion I follows
• B. Only conclusion II follows
• C. Either conclusion I or II follow
• D. Neither conclusion I nor II follows
• E. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is B Only conclusion II follows

Both the premises are particular affirmative (I-type). No conclusion follows from the two particular premises.
Conclusion II is the converse of the second premise.