Challenge Prelims V1.0 – Day 26 – CSAT Paper

1. Three statements followed by three conclusions are given below. You have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows/follow from the statement, disregarding the commonly known facts:  (UPSC 2022)

Statement 1 : Some doctors are teachers

Statement 2 : All teachers are engineers

Statement 3 : All engineers are scientists

Conclusion 1 : Some scientists are doctors

Conclusion 2 : All engineers are doctors

Conclusion 3 : Some engineers are doctors

Which of the following is correct?

2. Three statements followed by three conclusions are given below. You have to take the statement to be true even of it seems to be at variance from the commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusion(s) logically follow/follows from the statement, disregarding the commonly known facts.

Statement-1: All cats are white

Statement-2: Some cats are dogs

Statement-3: No dog is black

Conclusion-1: Some cats are black

Conclusion-2: No white is black

Conclusion-3: All dogs being cats is a possibility

Which one the following is correct?

3. Six statements followed by options consisting of three statements are given below. Choose the option where third statement is a conclusion drawn from preceding two statements

Statement 1 : Some lions are tigers

Statement 2 : All lions are cheetah

Statement 3: Some tigers are cheetah

Statement 4: All cheetah are tigers

Statement 5: All lions are tigers

Statement 6: Some lions are cheetah

Which of the following is correct?

4. Four statements followed by two conclusions are given below. You have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows/follow from the statement, disregarding the commonly known facts:

Statement 1 : Some cats are dogs

Statement 2 : Some cow are hen

Statement 3: No cat is hen

Statement 4: All cow are dog

Conclusion 1 : Some cows are not cat

Conclusion 2 : Some Dogs are cow

Which of the following is correct?

5. Two statements followed by two conclusions are given below. You have to take the statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows/follow from the statement, disregarding the commonly known facts:

Statement 1 : All Tulips are Lotuses

Statement 2 : Some Lotuses are Roses

Conclusion 1 : Some Tulips are roses

Conclusion 2 : All Tulips being roses is a possibility

Which of the following is correct?