Reasoning Quiz – Statement and Conclusion Problems



Direction (Q. 1-10):
In each question below are given three statements followed by two conclusions
numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if
they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of
the given conclusions logically follows from the statements, disregarding
commonly known facts. Give answer:

(a) If only conclusion I follows.
(b) If only conclusion II follows.
(c) If either I or II follows.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows.
(e) If both conclusion I and II follows.
1. Statements: Some books are balls No bat
is a book. All balls are matches.

Conclusion: I.
Some balls are not bats.
II. Some bats are not matches.

2. Statements: All squares are circles.
All circles are ice. Some ice are triangles.

Conclusion: I.
There is a possibility that all triangles are squares.
II. At least some ice are squares.

3. Statements:
Some songs are dances. Some dances are rhymes. Some rhymes are stories.
Conclusion: I. Some dances are stories.
II. Some songs are stories.

4. Statements:
Some bananas are soups. No soup is a powder. No curry is a banana.

Conclusion: I. All bananas can never be a powder. 
II. Some
curry are soups.

5. Statements:
All balls are tables. All tables are chairs. No chairs is a room.

Conclusion: I. No ball is a room. 
II. No table is a room.

6. Statements:
Some birds are animals. All birds are rodents. All rodents are mammals.

Conclusion: I.
Some birds are not mammals. 
II. All birds being animals is a possibility.

(Q.7-8):
7. Statements:
All lights are bulbs. No bulb is a cooler. All coolers are fans.

Conclusion: I. No
light is a cooler.
II. All lights being fans is a possibility.

8. Conclusion:
I. No fan is a light.
II. All bulbs being fan is a possibility.

(Q.9-10):
Statements: No
water is solid. Some solid are ice. All ice are gases.

9. Conclusion:
I. No gas is solid.
II. All gas being solid is a possibility.



10. Conclusion:
I. All water being gases is a possibility.
II. No water is ice.

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