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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. All cycles are ducks.
    2. All ducks are swans.
    Conclusions:
    I. All swans are cycles.
    II. Some swans are cycles.
    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

Both the Premises are Universal Affirmative (A–type).
All cycles are ducks. ↔ All ducks are swans.
A + A ⇒ A–type of Conclusion “All cycles are swans.”
Conclusion II is the Converse of it.



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