Syllogism Questions and Answers for Competitive Exams

In the following question below are given some statements followed by some conclusions. Taking the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts, read all the conclusions and then decide which the given conclusion logically follows the given statements. 

Statement: 

All wheat are grain. 

Some wheat is flour. 

Conclusion: 

I. Some grain are flour.

II. Some flour are wheat. 

Statements:

I. Anand is an artist

II. Artists are beautiful 

Conclusion: 

(a) All beautiful persons are artists 

(b) Anand is beautiful 

(c) Anand is not beautiful 

(d) Beautiful persons are not artists. 

Statements: 

Some pens are pencils. 

All pencils are erasers. 

Conclusions: 

I. Some pens are erasers. 

II. No pens are erasers. 

III. Some erasers are pencil 

Statements: 

All poets are day dreamers. 

All painters are day dreamers. 

Conclusion: 

I. All painters are poets. 

Direction: In each of the following questions, two statements are given followed by three conclusions I,II and III. You have to consider the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly /known facts. You have to decide which of the given conclusions, if any, follow from the given statements.

Statements: 

I. No purse is cloth. 

II. All purses are leather. 

Conclusions: 

I. No leather is cloth. 

II. Some leather are cloth.