NIMCET 2024 Logical Reasoning Question 56 with Solution

Question 56

Logical Reasoning Statement and Conclusions Medium

In the following question, three statements and three conclusions are given.
Statements:
All students are intelligent.
No intelligent person is lazy.
Some lazy people are poor.
Conclusions:
No student is lazy.
Some poor people are not intelligent.
All poor people are lazy.
Find the most appropriate conclusion(s) from the following options:

(A) Only conclusions 1 and 2 follow

(B) Only conclusion 1 follows

(C) Only conclusion 2 follows

(D) Only conclusions 2 and 3 follow

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Correct Solution: Option A

Step-by-step Solution:

Statements:

All students are intelligent.
No intelligent person is lazy.
Some lazy people are poor.

Conclusions:

No student is lazy.
Some poor people are not intelligent.
All poor people are lazy.

Analysis:

Conclusion 1 follows: Since all students are intelligent and no intelligent person is lazy, no student can be lazy.
Conclusion 2 follows: Some lazy people are poor and lazy people are not intelligent, so some poor people are not intelligent.
Conclusion 3 does not follow: "Some lazy people are poor" does not imply that all poor people are lazy.

Therefore, only conclusions 1 and 2 follow.

Answer: (A) Only conclusions 1 and 2 follow