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Directions: In the following questions, few statements are given and these statements are 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. Read the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Choose,

(A) Only (i) conclusion follows

(B) Only (ii) conclusion follows

(C) Neither (i) nor (ii) follows

(D) Both (i) and (ii) follow

(E) Either (i) or (ii) follows

Statements: All Bats are balls. Some balls are Balloons.

Conclusions:

(i) Some Bats are Balloons.

(ii) Some balls are Bats.

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  3. A
  4. B

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Option 4 : B
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Statements: All Bats are balls. Some balls are Balloons.

The least possible Venn diagram for the given statements is as follows:

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Now, Conclusions:

(i) Some Bats are Balloons - False (There is no direct relation given between Bats and Balloons, so it can be possible, not definite).

(ii) Some balls are Bats - True (Because All Bat are Balls, so some balls are bat is also true).

Here, only conclusion II follows.

Hence, the correct answer is "Option 4".

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