SSC Stenographer 2024 PYQ — Question 172

SSC Stenographer - 11/12/2024 (12:30 PM to 2:30 PM) • Reasoning • Q172

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. You have to consider the given 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 logically follow/s from the given statements.

Statements:
Some pins are clips.
Some clips are papers.
No paper is a book.

Conclusions:
(I): No book is a pin.
(II): At least some pins are papers.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. Neither conclusion (I) nor (II) follows.

The least possible venn diagram is:

Conclusions:

(I): No book is a pin. → Does not follow (As there is no direct relation between them)

(II): At least some pins are papers.  → Does not follow (It is possible but not definite)