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Direction: In the given question, two statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they…

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Direction: In the given question, two statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts.
Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.
Statements: All scientists are hard working.
No hard working men are poor.
Conclusions:
(I) No scientist is poor
(II) All poor men are not scientists
  1. Only conclusion (I) follows
  2. Only conclusion (II) follows
  3. Both conclusions (I) and (II) follow
  4. Neither conclusion (I) nor (II) follows

Answer and explanation

Correct answer: C - Both conclusions (I) and (II) follow
All scientists are hard working + no hard working man is poor gives no scientist is poor (I). Its converse, no poor man is a scientist, is what II ('all poor men are not scientists') means, so both follow.

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