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Some statements are given followed by some conclusions. You have to consider the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the statements. Statements: - All phones are laptops. - Only a few laptops are styluses. - No laptop is a tablet. Conclusions: I. All styluses can be tablets. II. No tablet is a phone.

1. If only conclusion I follows.
2. If only conclusion II follows.
3. If either conclusion I or II follows.
4. If neither conclusion I nor II follows.

Correct answer: If only conclusion II follows.

Solution

From the statements, all phones are laptops and no laptop is a tablet, so no phone can be a tablet. Hence conclusion II follows. Conclusion I does not follow because styluses may or may not be tablets; the statements do not establish that all styluses are tablets.

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