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Syllogisms

Different types of statements and conclusions

All As are Bs ELEMENT 1 ELEMENT 2

No As are Bs ALL

NO
Some As are Bs
SOME

Some As are not Bs


SOME NOT
Types of asking syllogisms
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 then
decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements,
disregarding commonly known facts.

Give answer:
•(A) If only conclusion I follows
•(B) If only conclusion II follows
•(C) If either I or II follows
•(D) If neither I nor II follows and
•(E) If both I and II follow.
Statements: Statements:
Some hens are cows. Some dreams are nights.
All cows are horses. Some nights are days.

Conclusions: Conclusions:
1.Some horses are hens. 1.All days are either nights or dreams.
2.Some hens are horses. 2.Some days are nights.
Statements: Statements:
All water is divine. All windows are doors
All temples are divine. No door is a wall.

Conclusions: Conclusions:
1.All water is temple. 1.Some windows are walls.
2.All temples are water. 2.No wall is a Door.
Statements:
All pens are chalks.
All chairs are chalks.

Conclusions:
1.Some pens are chairs.
2.Some chalks are pens.
Statements:
All fruits are vegetables.
All pens are vegetables.
All vegetables are rains.

Conclusions:
1.All fruits are rains.
2.All pens are rains.
3.Some rains are vegetables.

A.None follows
B.Only I and II follow
C.Only II and III follow
D.Only I and III follow
E.All follow
Statements:
Some saints are balls.
All balls are bats.
Some tigers are balls.

Conclusions:
1.Some bats are tigers.
2.Some saints are bats.
3.All bats are balls.

A.Only I and II follows


B.Only II follows
C.Only I and III follows
D.Only III follows
E.None of these
A : All good people are knights. All warriors are good people. All knights are warriors.
B : No footballers are ministers. All footballers are tough. Some ministers are players.
C : All pizzas are snacks. Some meals are pizzas. Some meals are snacks.
D : Some barkers are musk deer. All barkers are sloth bears. Some sloth bears are musk
deer.

A. A only
B. B and C
C. C only
D. C and D
Statements: Statements:
All flowers are trees. All film stars are playback singers.
No fruit is tree. All film directors are film stars.

Conclusions: Conclusions:
1.No fruit is flower. 1.All film directors are playback singers.
2.Some trees are flowers. 2.Some film stars are film directors.
Statements:
All branches are flowers.
All flowers are leaves.

Conclusions:
1.All branches are leaves.
2.All leaves are branches.
3.All flowers are branches.
4.Some leaves are branches.

A.None follows
B.Only I and IV follow
C.Only II and III follow
D.All follows
Statements: Some clothes are marbles. Some
marbles are bags.

Conclusions:
1.No cloth is a bag.
2.All marbles are bags.
3.Some bags are clothes.
4.No marble is a cloth.

A.Only either I or IV follows


B. Only either I or II follows
C. None follows
D.Only either I or III follows
Statements:
Some tables are TVs.
Some TVs are radios.

Conclusions:
1.Some tables are radios.
2.Some radios are tables.
3.All radios are TVs.
4.All TVs are tables.

A.None follows
B.All follows
C.Only I and III follow
D.Only II and IV follow
Statements
All jungles are tigers.
Some tigers are horses.

Conclusions
I. Some horses are jungles.
II. No horse is jungle.

A. Only conclusion I follows


B. Only conclusion II follows
C. Either I or II follows
D. Neither I nor II follows
E. Both I and II follow
I. All IIMs are in India. No BIMs are in India. No IIMs are BIMs
II. All IIMs are in India. No BIMs are in India .No BIMs are IIMs
III. Some IIMs are not in India. Some BIMs are not in India. Some IIMs are BIMs.
IV. Some IIMs are not in India. Some BIMs are not in India. Some BIMs are IIMs.

a. I only b. II only c. I and II only d. I and IV


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