QUESTION

CSAT

Hard

Reasoning

Prelims 2022

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 the commonly known facts. Read all the Conclusions and then decide which of the given Conclusions logically follows/ follow from the Statements, disregarding the commonly known facts: Statement-1 : Some doctors are teachers. Statement-2 : All teachers are engineers. Statement-3 : All engineers are scientists.

Conclusion-I : Some scientists are doctors. Conclusion-II : All engineers are doctors. Conclusion-III: Some engineers are doctors.

Which one of the following is correct?

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Explanation

Conclusion-I: This conclusion follows logically. From the statements, we know that some doctors are teachers, all teachers are engineers, and all engineers are scientists. This creates a chain: Since some doctors are teachers, those doctors are also engineers (Statement-2). Since all engineers are scientists, these doctors who are engineers are also scientists. Therefore, some scientists are doctors.

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Conclusion-II: This conclusion does not follow. Statement-2 only states that all teachers are engineers, but it does not imply that all engineers are doctors. There could be engineers who are not doctors.

Conclusion-III: This conclusion follows. Since some doctors are teachers and all teachers are engineers, it follows that some engineers are doctors (those engineers who are teachers and also doctors).

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