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Taking the statements as true — All rivers are water bodies. No water body is a desert. Conclusions: I. No river is a desert.
II. Some water bodies are rivers. Which conclusion(s) follow?

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  • ANeither conclusion I nor II follows
  • BOnly conclusion I follows
  • COnly conclusion II follows
  • DBoth conclusions I and II follow

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Rivers lie inside water bodies, and no water body is a desert, so no river is a desert (I). All rivers are water bodies, so some water bodies are rivers (II). Both follow.
Answer: D) Both conclusions I and II follow

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