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Directions: In the question below are given three statements followed by two conclusions I, II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:

No chair is a table.

No table is a bench.

Only a few benches are wood.

Conclusions:

I. Some wood being chair is a possibility.

II. Some wood is not a table.

  1. Only I follows
  2. Only II follows
  3. Either I or II follows
  4. Both I and II follow
  5. None follows

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Option 4 : Both I and II follow
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The least possible Venn diagram for the given statements is as follows:

I. Some wood being chair is a possibility → True (as there is no definite relation between Wood and Chair so, the possibility is true.)

II. Some wood is not a table → True (as no table is bench and only a few benches are wood so, the part of wood which is bench is not table)

Hence, both I and II follow.

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