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the given statements disregarding commonly known facts? Statements: Some songs are long. All longs are shorts. Conclusions: All longs are songs. All shorts are longs.

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Question

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

Statements:

  1. Some songs are long.
  2. All longs are shorts.

Conclusions:

  1. All longs are songs.
  2. All shorts are longs. 

Options

  • If the only Conclusion I follow

  • If only Conclusion II follows  

  • If either Conclusion I or Conclusion II follows.

  • If neither Conclusion I nor Conclusion II follows.

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Solution

If neither Conclusion I nor Conclusion II follows.

Explanation:

Some songs are long.

All longs are shorts.

I + A ⇒ I-type of Conclusion 

"Some songs are shorts."

Neither Conclusion I nor Conclusion II follows.

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