Given below are two statements.
Statement:
Some food are sweet.
Some food are sour.
Conclusions:
I. All foods are either sweet or sour.
II. Some sweets are sour.
Which of the conclusions follow from the given statements.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → Neither I nor II follow.
A conclusion follows only if it is true in every diagram that fits the statements. “Some food are sweet” and “Some food are sour” each say only that the two circles overlap; they say nothing about the rest of the food, or about sweet and sour things together. The diagram below fits both statements:
Conclusion I (All foods are either sweet or sour) does not follow: in the diagram some food is neither sweet nor sour.
Conclusion II (Some sweets are sour) does not follow: in the diagram the sweet and sour circles do not meet; two “some” statements about food never link sweet with sour.