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Statements: No tens are doors. All tins are roofs. Some gates are tens. No tins are tens. Conclusions: 1. Some gates are roofs 2. Some gates are doors 3. All gates being doors is a possibility 4. No doors are roofs 5. All tens being roofs is a possibility Which of the given conclusions definitely does not follow, or is not a possibility, from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts?

1. Some gates are roofs
2. Some gates are doors
3. All gates being doors is a possibility
4. No doors are roofs

Correct answer: All gates being doors is a possibility

Solution

Since some gates are tens and no tens are doors, those gates cannot be doors. Therefore, it is impossible that all gates are doors. The other statements are either possible or not directly contradicted by the given information.

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