Dr. Dayal Sandhu Solutions for Chapter: Logical Reasoning, Exercise 5: Exercise

Statement:

Some college teachers are not football players.

Which one of the following can be the conclusion to the given statement?

(A) Any football player is not a college teacher.

(B) Some college teachers may be football players.

C) Some players may be college teachers.

(D) Sri Ramesh, who is a chess player, cannot be a college teacher.

In the following question, some statement/statements are given followed by conclusions. The appropriate conclusion which follows the statement will be your answer:

Statement:

(1) Some essayists are poets.

(2) All poets are dramatists.

Conclusions:

(i) Some poets are essayists.

(ii) Some essayists are dramatists.

In the following question, some statement/statements are given followed by conculsions. The appropriate conclusion which follows the statement will be your answer:

Statement:

If blue is heavy then yellow is light. If red is light then green is medium. But blue is heavy or red is light.

Conclusions:

(i) Yellow and red are light.

(ii) Green is medium.

Statement:

The educated people should work in villages.

Conclusions:

(i) Yes, because they can revolutionize agriculture and revamp rural atmosphere.

(ii) No, the educated should be employed in cities only, because otherwise their education will go waste.

In the following question, some statement/statements are given followed by conclusions. The appropriate conclusion which follows the statement will be your answer:

Statement:

If you are a graphic artist, we have a challenging job for you.

Conclusions:

(I) You are a graphic artist.

(II) We need a graphic artist.

In the question below, a situation has been given in the Statements and after it, a conclusion is given. On the basis of the statement, you have to decide whether the conclusion is correct or false. Give your answer as (A) if it is correct, (B)if it is more than expected, (C) if it is false and (D) if it is doubtful

Statement:

(i) Regions of warm and damp climate are generally affected by malaria.

(ii) Climate of Trombay is warm and damp.

(iii) Two thousand people die every year in Trombay.

Conclusion:

Those people should die due to malaria.

In this question, two statements P and Q are given. They may look factually absurd. You have to ignore the absurdity and concentrate only upon the logic involved in each Statement. Give your answer

(A) if only P is true,

(B) if only Q is true,

(C) if both P and Q are true and

(D) if both are false.

Statement:

(P) All workers wear caps. All caps are red. Therefore, all workers do not wear red caps.

(Q) All wives are women. Kamla is a woman.

Therefore, Kamla is a wife.

Which numbered space in the figure represents doctors who are players as well as artists?