Statements: All gardens are schools. All schools are colleges. Choose the conclusion(s) that logically follow.

1.All gardens are colleges

2.Some gardens are not colleges

AOnly conclusion I follows ✓ Correct

BOnly conclusion II follows

CBoth conclusions I and II follow

DNeither conclusion I nor II follows

Correct answer: (A) Only conclusion I follows

Explanation

Only the first conclusion, that all gardens are colleges, follows.

'All gardens are schools' and 'all schools are colleges' link in a chain.

Passing through schools, every garden is a college.

That establishes the first conclusion with certainty.

The second, 'some gardens are not colleges', directly contradicts it and cannot hold.

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