Reasoning Ability
116 questions across 10 exam years. Answers for this topic
Directions · Q.36–40
Directions (36–40): In each question below are given some statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer (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.
Statements: All bags are purses. No purse is black. All blacks are covers. Conclusions: I. All bags are covers II. Some covers are purses.
Statements: Some cats are rats. Some rats are fishes. All fishes are birds. Conclusions: I. Some fishes are rats. II. All cats being birds is a possibility
Statements: Some flowers are roses. No rose is red. All red are leaves. Conclusions: I. Some flowers are definitely not red. II. Some leaves are definitely not roses.
Note: options are the common answer options given in the set directions; Q38 and Q40 have identical statements in source
Statements: All cards are sheets. All files are cards. Some sheets are papers. Conclusions: I. All files being papers is a possibility. II. All files are not sheets.
Statements: Some flowers are roses. No rose is red. All red are leaves. Conclusions: I. Some flowers are not leaves. II. No leave is a red.
Note: options are the common answer options given in the set directions; Q38 and Q40 have identical statements in source
Statement: No fight is battle. All battles are war. Some war is quarrel. Conclusion: All fights can never be war. No battle is quarrel.
Note: statement/conclusions as shared by source; no options/answer. qno is our sequence.