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Direction: Two statements are followed by two conclusions I and II. You have to consider the two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance from commonly known facts. You have to decide which one of the given conclusions are definitely drawn from the given statements:

  1. Statement:
    (a) All politicians are intelligent
    (b) Some women are politicians
    Conclusions:
    I. Some women are intelligent
    II. All those intelligent are women.
    1. Only conclusion I follows
    2. Only conclusion II follows
    3. Both conclusions I & II follow
    4. Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
Correct Option: A

Some women are politicians. ↔ All politicians are intelligents.
We know that,
I + A ⇒I–type Conclusion Thus, our derived Conclusion would be: “Some women are intelligent”.



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