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Instructions for Question: Choose the set of three statements where the third statement can be logically derived from the preceding two.
Statements:
1. Some students love reading.
2. Some adults do not love reading.
3. Some students are not adults.
4. Some students are adults.
5. No reading lover is an adult.
6. Some men do not love reading.
The set of statements is:
Options
1, 3, 4
1, 5, 3
1, 2, 4
6, 2, 4
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Solution
1, 5, 3
Explanation:
Step-wise analyszation
1. Some students love reading.
5. No reading lover is an adult.
3. Some students are not adults.
From (1) and (5):
Some students love reading → those students are reading lovers.
No reading lover is an adult → therefore, those students who love reading cannot be adults.
Hence, it logically follows that:
Some students are not adults
Therefore, the correct set is (1), (5) and (3).
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