English and Logical Reasoning Prep GuideLogical ReasoningLogical Deduction
Question : Directions: In each question below there are given some statements followed by some conclusions. 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/follow from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Statements: No newspaper is magazine. Not
Options
- AOnly C3 follows
- BEither C1 or C2 follows
- COnly C2 and C3 follow
- DAll follow
Correct answer
A. Only C3 follows
Step-by-step solution
Analytical Method: Checking C1: Some stories which are books are newspapers as well. If we observe the given statements, we can find that in Statement 1 and 2, the middle term ‘magazine’ is distributed twice and therefore even after conversing either of the sentence we won’t be able to find a definite conclusion out of these two. Therefore, we can’t derive a definite relationship between ‘book’ and ‘newspaper’. C1 hence doesn’t follow. Checking C2: No newspaper