Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT101 S2 Q7 Explanation

A neighborhood group plans to protest

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Stimulus

A neighborhood group plans to protest the closing of the neighborhood’s only recreation center on the grounds that to do so would leave the neighborhood without local access to a recreation center. “Our neighborhood already has the most residents per center of any neighborhood in the city, ” complained one resident, “and access to recreational facilities is a necessity for this neighborhood. ”

What this question is testing

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Your task

Find the choice that makes the argument's conclusion less likely to be true.

Common trap

Answers that look negative but attack a claim the argument never relied on.

Winning move

Find the assumption the argument depends on, then pick the choice that undermines it.

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The question
7.

Each of the following, if true, weakens the resident’s

Answer choices

  1. Correct83% picked this

    A large number of the neighborhood’s residents are unable to travel outside their locality to gain

    Why this is right

    This strengthens, if anything. The residents are saying, "We need a rec center. This is the only one this neighborhood has. Without it, we would have no local access to a rec center." This answer seems to be corroborating that story, saying that people would be screwed. They're unable to travel to a different rec center in a different locality.

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

  2. Weakens6% picked this

    Children, the main users of recreational facilities, make up a disproportionately small segment of

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. The main users of the rec center have been children, and they comprise a small minority of the local population. So most of the local population apparently don't make much use of this rec center.

  3. Weakens5% picked this

    Often the recreation center in the neighborhood is open but not

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. It's often open, but no one's in it.

  4. Weakens3% picked this

    Programs that are routinely filled at other recreation centers must be canceled at the neighborhood’s recreation center due

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. After all programs that are popular elsewhere are ghost towns at this rec center. Classes that fill up elsewhere are canceled due to lack of interest at this rec center.

  5. Weakens3% picked this

    As people become more involved in computers and computer games, recreation centers are becoming

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the rec centers are increasingly less important, now that people are more into computers and computer games. (haha, funny message there from LSAC -- now that we have screens, who needs exercise facilities!)

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