Railways PYQCBT 2 2017

RRB NTPC · Question 47

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. Statement: All caps are books. All books are pens. Conclusions: I. Some caps are not pens. II. Some pens are caps.

  1. Only conclusion II follows

  2. Only conclusion I follows

  3. Neither I nor II follows

  4. Either I nor II follows

Show answer & explanation

Answer: (A) Only conclusion II follows

Explanation

All caps are books and all books are pens, so all caps are pens – I is false. Since all caps are pens, some pens are caps – II follows.