Latest Bank Exam Aptitude Question SOLUTION: Statements : All men are married. Some men are educated. Conclusions : I. Some married are educated. II. Some educated are married. Please explain it

(a) Some men are educated
(a) can be written as
some educated are men (Particular positive -PP)
All men are married (Universal positive -UP)
PP + UP = PP
So Some educated are married (Or) Some married are educated...
So both Conclusion I nd II follows...

Ans : Both I nd II follows...

To sum up the conversion rules
Type Valid Conversion
Universal Positive (UP) Only PP
Universal Negative (UN) PN or UN
Particular Positive (PP) Only PP
Particular Negative (PN) Not possible.

Please note:

Here are the non-conclusion combos when two question statements are in following format.
First statement (A to B) Second statement (B to C) Answer

Universal Positive (UP) Particular Positive (PP) No conclusion
Particular Negative (PN) No conclusion
Universal Negative (UN) Universal Negative (UN) No conclusion
Particular Negative (PN) No conclusion
Particular Positive (PP) Particular Positive (PP) No conclusion
Particular Negative (PN) No conclusion
Particular Negative (PN) Any other (UP, UN, PP, PN) No conclusion


If you’ve followed above steps, then question statements in the format “A to B and then B to C.”
First statement (A to B) Second statement (B to C) Conclusion

Universal Positive (UP) Universal Positive (UP) Universal Positive (UP) (A to C)
Universal Negative (UN) Universal Negative (UN) (A to C)
Universal Negative (UN) Universal positive (UP) Particular Negative (PN). (C to A)
Particular Positive (PP)
Particular Positive (PP) Universal Positive (UP) Particular Positive (PP) (A to C)
Universal Negative (UN) Particular Negative (PN) (A to C)

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Thanks for the solution.
Can u provide me all the rules to solve 2 and 3 statements SYLLOGISM in few seconds.

Better refer the the below link @sudhir sharma

http://mrunal.org/2013/01/reasoning-syllogism-all-cats-dogs-approach-shortcut-technique-explained-ibps-ssc-csat-cat.html

Thanks @Saraswathy

both r true

I, all men are married and some are educated so educated men is a subset of married men.

The ans. is "Some married are educated".
The explanation of this answer is as per the question all the men are married & some men are educated..so there exist all the men's are married and some of them are educated.

both are implicit