Question

Statements: All apartments are huts.
No hut is a building.
All buildings are cottages.
Conclusions: I. Some cottages being apartments is a possibility.
II. No cottage is a hut.

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

Answer 1

The correct option is A if only conclusion I follows.

Fig 1 is the basic Venn diagrammatic representation of statements.

Conclusion I: From fig 2, it can be clearly concluded that it follows.

Conclusion II: This doesn't follow as it violates the above statements. Here, some cottages are huts.

Answer : A