Use rules of inferential logic for the following problem..

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Here I have such a question related to laws of inference. The question asks to prove using the laws of inference (these rules) that the following facts give a certain conclusion. So the question is:

All the students that studied passed the exam. Ann passed the exam.So, I can say that Ann studied.

What I thought is: Generally we are talking about students. The statements are:

P(x): "x studied" and Q(x): "x passed the exam"

So the statment:

  1. All the students that studied passed the exam is $\forall x(P(x) \to Q(x))$
  2. Ann passed the exam is $Q(Ana)$

So I must prove that the conclusion is $P(Ana)$. The problem is I do not know what law of inference to use. The conclusion is obvious, but I do not understand how to show this thing using discrete math tools. Can you please help me ? Thanks.