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Directions (Q.18-23): In each of these questions two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II have been given. You have to take the given statemenet 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 follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements: All grades are scales. All scales are categories.
Conclusions:
I. All grades are categories.
II. All categories are scales.

A) Either conclusion I or II is true.
B) Both conclusion I and II are true.
C) Neither conclusion I nor II is true.
D) Only conclusion II is true.
E) Only conclusion I is true.

Correct Answer:





E) Only conclusion I is true.

Description for Correct answer:
All grades are scales + All scales are categories = A + A = A = All grades are categories. Hence I

follows. All scales are categories (A) ---- Conversion ---- Some categories are scales (I).

Hence II does not follow.

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