Directions: In the question below are given three statements followed by three conclusions I, II and III. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:

All fruits are healthy.

Some vegetables are not healthy.

Only a few fruits are sweet.

Conclusions:

I. Some sweet are healthy.

II. Some vegetables are healthy.

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  1.  Only I follows.
  2. Only II follows.
  3. Either I or II follows.
  4. Neither I nor II follows.
  5. Both I and II follows.

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Option 1 :  Only I follows.
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The least possible diagram for the given statements is as follows:

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Conclusions:

I. Some sweet are healthy.  → True (Since only a few fruits are sweet, there must be some sweet fruits. Since all fruits are healthy, those sweet fruits are also healthy. This conclusion is valid.)

II. Some vegetables are healthy.  → False (The second statement says that some vegetables are not healthy, but from this we can not certainly say that some vegetables are healthy hence it will be considered as false.)

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