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Statements: Only a few doctors are engineers. No engineer is a lawyer. Conclusions: I. Some doctors are not lawyers.
II. All lawyers being doctors is a possibility. Which conclusion(s) follow?

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  • AOnly II follows
  • BBoth I and II follow
  • COnly I follows
  • DNeither I nor II follows

Step-by-Step Solution

The doctors who are engineers are not lawyers, so some doctors are not lawyers; and all lawyers could lie among the non-engineer doctors, so II is possible.
Answer: B) Both I and II follow

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