Question

In each of the questions below, there are two statements along with four conclusions I, II, III and IV. Read the conclusions and decide which of the conclusions follow the statements.

Statements
Some clothes are marbles.
Some marbles are bags.

Conclusions
I. No cloth is a bag.
II. All marbles are bags.
iii. Some bags are clothes.
IV. No marble is cloth.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is C Only I or III follows

Both the premises are particular affirmative (I-type). No conclusion follows from the two particular premises.The converse of conclusion I and conclusion III forms a complementary pair. Therefore, either I or III follows.