Question

In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by three conclusions numbered I, II and III. 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 boxes are toys.
Some toys are nails.
Some nails are stores.
Some stores are shops.

Conclusions
I. Some shops are toys.
II. Some nails are boxes.
III. No shop is a toy.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is C Only either I or III follows

All the four premises are particular affirmative (I-type).
No conclusion follows from the two particular premises.
Conclusions I and III form a complementary pair.
Therefore, either I or III follows.