Question

In each of the questions below are given four statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. 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 desks are tables.
Some tables are chairs.
Some chairs are benches.
Some benches are cots.

Conclusions
I. Some chairs are desks.
II. Some cots are tables.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is D Neither conclusion I nor II follows

All the four premises are particular affirmative (I-type).
No conclusion follows from particular premises.