Statement - Conclusions Questions and Answers

Answer: A

Only statement II must be a fact, so the answer is Only II.

Half of four children are girls, so two are girls and two are boys. Statement II therefore follows from Fact 1 and Fact 3.

Statement I is not forced: both blue-eyed children could be boys. Statement III is not forced either, since the boys could be the blue-eyed pair. So only II holds, and options containing I or III are wrong.

Answer: D

None of the statements is a known fact, so the answer is None of the statements is a known fact.

Statement I speaks of all caps, but the facts only say that baseball caps are hats, so we do not know that every cap is a hat and has a brim. Statement II is not given: the facts name black hats and blue hats but do not say that any baseball cap is blue. Statement III contradicts Fact 1 and Fact 3, since baseball caps are hats and all hats have brims.

Every option that accepts I, II or III is therefore wrong.

Answer: B

The key accepts Only II and III.

Statement II holds: hens are female chickens, and all chickens are birds, so hens are birds. Statement I fails, because only female birds are said to lay eggs. Statement III is read in the ordinary sense of the word "some": saying that some chickens are hens suggests that others are not, and the Commission's key takes it that way.

Note that under a strictly formal reading, "some" only means at least one, and then III would not be forced, which would leave Only II. The key follows the everyday reading, which is how this set is meant to be answered.

Answer: D

None of the statements is a known fact, so the answer is None of the statements is a known fact.

Statement I says only children's chairs are stuffed with beans, but Fact 3 says only that some chairs are, not which. Statement II says all stuffed tigers have beans, but Fact 1 says only most stuffed toys do. Statement III says stuffed monkeys have no beans, but the facts say nothing about monkeys and most toys are bean-stuffed.

None is forced by the three facts, so every option that accepts one of them is wrong.

Answer: C

Only statement III must be a fact, so the answer is Only III.

All storybooks have pictures (Fact 2) and some storybooks have words (Fact 3), so some storybooks have both words and pictures.

Statement I compares pictures with words, which the facts never do. Statement II describes how simple the stories are, which is not stated anywhere. So Only I, Only II and the "none" option are wrong.

Answer: C

Correct answer: Neither (A) nor (B) follows.

Only intelligent people work at LT, and MTV graduates are intelligent - but that does not put any of them in the company, so (B) does not follow. (A) claims that graduates of other colleges are less intelligent, which neither statement says. Neither follows.

Answer: B

Correct answer: Private companies’ employees work more than Government employees

Six working days against five is a direct comparison of the two, so this conclusion simply reads off the statements. The others go beyond them: nothing is said about which employees are better, nor about how heavy the work is on either side.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of these.

“Do not smoke” is an instruction and nothing more. It gives no reason and no consequence - not that smoking is an offence, not that it causes cancer, not that a fine will be charged. All of those would have to be brought in from outside, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: D

Correct answer: None of these.

We are told that Ani earns more than Sam and that Sam will get a rise of Rs 5000, but not by how much Ani’s earnings exceed Sam’s. If the gap is under Rs 5000 Sam will overtake her; if it is more, he will not; if exactly Rs 5000, they will be level. Nothing settles which, so the answer is none of these.

Answer: D

Correct answer: Geeta is a friend of Aarti.

Friendship as stated here works both ways, so Aarti being a friend of Geeta makes Geeta a friend of Aarti - the one conclusion that needs nothing added. Friendship is not, however, carried along a chain: Priya being Aarti’s friend and Aarti Geeta’s does not make Priya and Geeta friends.