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Railways PYQCBT 2 2017

RRB NTPC · Question 118

Below are given statements followed by some conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with the commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follow(s) from the given statements. Statements: All poets are readers. No reader is wise. Conclusions: I. No poet is wise. II. All readers are poets.

  1. Only conclusion II follows.

  2. Only conclusion I follows.

  3. Neither conclusions I nor II follows.

  4. Both conclusions I and II follow.

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Answer: (B) Only conclusion I follows.

Explanation

All poets are readers and no reader is wise, so no poet can be wise – Conclusion I follows. 'All poets are readers' does not mean all readers are poets, so II does not follow.