Question

In each question below are given two statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read the conclusion and the decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements: Some desks are caps. No cap is red.
Conclusions:
I. Some caps are desks.
II. No desk is red.

• A. If only conclusion I follows
• B. lf only conclusion II follows
• C. If neither I nor II follows and
• D. If both I and II follow

Answer 1

The correct option is A If only conclusion I follows

Since one premise is particular and the other premise is negative, the conclusion must be particular negative and should not contain the middle term. So, it follows that 'Some desks are not red'. However, I is the converse of the first premise and thus it holds.