Statement: (a) All politicians are intelligent (b) Some women are politicians Conclusions: I. Some women are intelligent II. All those intelligent are women.

Only conclusion I follows
Only conclusion II follows
Both conclusions I & II follow
Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows

Correct Answer: Only conclusion I follows

Explanation:

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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