Logical Reasoning

PT10 · S4 · Q24 When the rate of inflation

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When the rate of inflation exceeds the rate of return on the most profitable investment available, the difference between those two rates will be the percentage by which, at a minimum, the value of any investment will decline.

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

24.

Which one of the following logically completes the argument?

  1. the rate of inflation has

    Trap

    17% picked this

  2. the investment in question is

    Trap

    20% picked this

  3. Correct

    the investment in question is

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Must be True · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    40% picked this

  4. the rate of return on

    Trap

    18% picked this

  5. there has been a change

    Trap

    5% picked this

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