Question

Statements: All pens are pencils.
No pencil is a paper.
All papers are notebooks.
Conclusions: I. All pens being notebooks is a possibility.
II. All notebooks being pencils is a possibility.

• A. Only conclusion I follows.
• B. Only conclusion II follows.
• C. Either conclusion I or II follows.
• D. Neither conclusion I nor II follows.
• E. Both conclusions I and II follow.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Neither conclusion I nor II follows.

$Statement:$ Pens$\subseteq$ Pencils$⊈$Papers $\subseteq$ notebooks

$Conclusion1:$ There is no possibility of pens being notebooks since it is mentioned in the statement that all pens are not pencils.Hence Conclusion 1 is false

$Conclusion2$:Notebooks pencils is not possible since it is mentioned that no pencil is a paper.Hence Conclusion 2 is false