Which one of the following is true for an exothermic reaction $ A \rightleftharpoons B$ if $E_{r}\: and \: E_b$ are the activation energies of forward and backward reactions respectively?

Question

$\begin {array} {1 1} (1)\;E_r > E_b & \quad (2)\;E_r = E_b \\ (3)\;E_r = - E_b & \quad (4)\;E_r < E_b \end {array}$