Given below are two statements followed by some conclusions. You have to take…

Concept

In statement-and-conclusion reasoning, a conclusion “follows” only when it is a necessary logical inference from the statements taken as true. An inference is not valid if it requires an outside judgment, opinion, or assumption that the statements themselves never make — even when that extra assumption sounds reasonable.

Application

1. Conclusion I — “Our national norm is appropriate” — asks whether 200 beds per thousand is the correct benchmark. The statements only state the norm as a figure; they never assess or justify whether 200 is the appropriate number. Judging it “appropriate” imports a value judgment the statements do not make, so Conclusion I does not follow.

2. Conclusion II — “The state's health system is taking adequate care” — follows directly from comparing the two given numbers: the state provides 300 beds per thousand against a stated norm of 200, i.e. 100 more than required. Providing more than the specified benchmark is, on its own, sufficient to call the state's provision adequate, so Conclusion II follows.

Cross-check

Checking against the other combinations confirms this: “both follow” would additionally need Conclusion I to hold, which it does not, since no statement judges whether the norm itself is appropriate; “neither follows” would need Conclusion II to fail too, but 300 exceeding 200 is a direct, statement-internal comparison that needs no outside assumption. So exactly one conclusion follows.

Hence, only Conclusion II follows.