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Railways PYQCBT 1 2020

RRB NTPC · Question 15

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. Assuming that the information given in the statements is true, even if it appears to be at variance with commonly. known facts, decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the statements. Statements: 1. All lawyers are intelligent. 2. Some women are lawyers. Conclusions: I. Some women are intelligent. II. All those intelligent are women.

  1. Only conclusion I follows.

  2. Only conclusion II follows.

  3. Neither conclusion I nor II follows.

  4. Either conclusion I or II follows

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Answer: (A) Only conclusion I follows.

Explanation

Some women are lawyers and all lawyers are intelligent, so those women are intelligent – Conclusion I follows. Nothing says all intelligent people are women, so II does not follow.