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SSC CHSL 2023 · PYQ · Syllogism · medium

Read the given statements and conclusions carefully. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. You have to decide which conclusion/s logically follow/s from the given statements. Statements: All elephants are tigers. All tigers are horses. No horse is a camel. Conclusion (I): Some horses are elephants. Conclusion (II): Some camels are tigers.

  1. A.Only conclusion I follows.✓ Correct
  2. B.Both conclusions I and II follow.
  3. C.Neither conclusion I nor II follows.
  4. D.Only conclusion II follows.

Explanation

Since all elephants are tigers and all tigers are horses, all elephants are horses, so some horses are elephants — Conclusion I is valid. Since no horse is a camel and all tigers are horses, no tiger is a camel, meaning no camels are tigers — Conclusion II does not follow. Only Conclusion I follows.
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