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Direction: Consider the given statements to be true and decide which of the given Conclusions/assumptions can definitely be drawn from the given statements.

  1. Statements:
    1. Some principals are teachers.
    2. All teachers are students.
    Conclusions:
    I. All principals are students.
    II. Some students are principals.
    1. Only Conclusion I follows
    2. Only Conclusion II follows
    3. Both Conclusion I and Conclusion II follow
    4. Neither Conclusion I nor Conclusion II follows
Correct Option: B

First Premise is Particular Affirmative (I–type).
Second Premise is Universal Affirmative (A–type).
Some principals are teachers. ↔ All teachers are students.
I + A ⇒ I–type of Conclusion “Some principals are students.”
Conclusion II is the Converse of it.



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