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Q1Take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements. Statements: No paper is a car. All cars are markers. Some markers are erasers. Conclusions: (I) Some cars are erasers is a possibility. (II) Some papers are markers.

A Only conclusion I follows.
B Only conclusion II follows.
C Both conclusions I and II follow.
D Neither I nor II follows.
Explanation

All cars are inside the marker class, and some markers are erasers. The statements do not forbid cars from overlapping with erasers, so the possibility that some cars are erasers remains logically open. The statement that no paper is a car only separates papers from cars; it does not connect papers positively with markers. Therefore, some papers are markers is not definitely established. The combinations that accept the paper-marker conclusion, or reject the car-eraser possibility, do not follow from the given statements.

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