Question

In each of the questions below are given two/three 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 with 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. Give answer
Statements: No book is a pencil.All pencils are pens.
No pen is blue.
Conclusions: I. No blue is a pencil.
II. All books being pen is a possibility.

• A. if only conclusion I follows.
• B. if only conclusion II follows.
• C. if either conclusion I or conclusion II follows.
• D. if neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows.
• E. if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.

Answer 1

Answer: (E)

if both conclusion I and conclusion II follow.

Conclusion I: In fig 1, There is no connection between blue and pen. Since, pencil is completely inside pen, blue cannot be connected to pencil. Conclusion I is true.

Conclusion II: In fig 2, it is a possible diagram drawn without violating the above statements. All books being pen is a possibility.