Question

In each of the questions 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 from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements
Some chairs are tents.
Some tents are jugs.
All glasses are pots.

Conclusions
I. Some pots are tents.
II. Some pots are chairs.
III. Some glasses are chairs.
IV. Some glasses are tents.

• A. Only I and II follow
• B. Only II and III follow
• C. Only I and III follow
• D. Only I and IV follow
• E. None of these

Answer 1

The correct option is D Only I and IV follow

Some tents are jugs.
All jugs are glasses.
$I+A\Rightarrow I$ - type of conclusion
Some tents are glasses.
Conclusion IV is the converse of it.
Some tents are glasses.
All glasses are pots.
$I+A\Rightarrow I$ - type of conclusion
Some tents are pots.
Conclusion I is the converse of it.
All jugs are glasses.
All glasses are pots.
$A+A\Rightarrow A$ - type of conclusion
All jugs are pots.