Statements : Some clothes are marbles. Some marbles are bags. Conclusions : I. No cloth is a bag. II. All marbles are bags. III. Some bags are clothes. IV. No marble is a cloth.

Only either I or IV follows
Only either I or II follows
None follows
Only either I or III follows

The correct answer is: Only either I or III follows.

The first statement is “Some clothes are marbles.” This means that there exists at least one object that is both a cloth and a marble. The second statement is “Some marbles are bags.” This means that there exists at least one object that is both a marble and a bag.

From these two statements, we cannot conclude that all marbles are bags, or that all bags are clothes. For example, it is possible that there are some clothes that are not marbles, and some bags that are not marbles.

However, we can conclude that there exists at least one object that is both a cloth and a bag. This is because the first statement tells us that there exists at least one object that is both a cloth and a marble, and the second statement tells us that there exists at least one object that is both a marble and a bag. Therefore, there must exist at least one object that is both a cloth and a bag.

Therefore, the only conclusion that follows from the two statements is that there exists at least one object that is both a cloth and a bag. This conclusion is represented by option III.

Options I and II are incorrect because they make claims about all marbles or all bags, when the two statements only tell us about some marbles and some bags. Option IV is incorrect because it makes a claim about all marbles, when the two statements only tell us about some marbles.

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