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Railways PYQCBT 2 2017

RRB NTPC · Question 56

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: Some Editors are Actors. All the Actors are writers. Conclusions: I. Some Editors are Writers. II. No Actor is Editor.

  1. Neither Conclusions I nor II follow.

  2. Only Conclusion II follows.

  3. Only Conclusion I follows.

  4. Either Conclusion I or II follows.

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Answer: (C) Only Conclusion I follows.

Explanation

Some editors are actors and all actors are writers, so those editors are writers – Conclusion I follows. II contradicts the statement 'some editors are actors', so it does not follow.