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प्रश्न
Choose the most appropriate option:
If it is false that 'There is at least one octogenarian in the room', then which one of the following is probable?
विकल्प
One person in the room is not an octogenarian.
No one in the room is an octogenarian.
All those who are in the room are octogenarians.
Some people in the room are not octogenarians
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उत्तर
No one in the room is an octogenarian.
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iv. The Teacher, D and A are friends to one another but two of these prefer chapatti to rice.
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