Question

In each of the questions below are given three 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 buckets are waters.
All water is paper.
Some papers are woods.

Conclusions
I. Some woods are water.
II. Some buckets are woods.
III. Some papers are buckets.
IV. Some woods are buckets.

• A. None follows
• B. Only II follows
• C. Only III follows
• D. Only IV follows
• E. II, III and IV follow

Answer 1

The correct option is C Only III follows

Mediate term of the following statement is
Some buckets are water. (I-type)
All waters are papers (A-type)
$I+A\to Itype$
Some buckets are papers
Some buckets are papers
Conversion
Some papers are buckets
(Conclusion III follows)

Only conclusion III follows.