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Statements: All businessmen are hardworking.
No hardworking man is superstitious.
Conclusions: I No businessman is superstitious.
II All superstitious are not businessmen.

A

if only conclusion I follows

B

if only conclusion II follows

C

if either I or II follows

D

if both I and II follow.

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D
A+E= E `:.` No businessmen are superstitious. Further, No businessmen are superstitious `to` on conversion `to` No superstitious are businessmen. If is true that no superstitious are businessmen then the proposition O all superstitious are not businessmen also must be true.
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