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
​​​​​​​All sands are beaches.
All shores are beaches.
Some beaches are trees.

Conclusions
I. Some shores are hotels.
II. All beaches are shores.
III. Some beaches are hotels.
IV. Some sands are trees.

• A. None follows
• B. Only II follows
• C. Only either I or III follows
• D. Only IV follows
• E. Only III follows.

Answer 1

The correct option is E Only III follows.

Mediate term of the following statement is
Some beaches are trees. (I-type)
All trees are hotels. (A-type)
$I+A\to Itype$
Some beaches are hotels
(Conclusion III follows)
or

So, only III follows.