Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT103 S3 Q23 Explanation

According to the principle stated

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TopicsPrinciple-Conform

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Stimulus

Whenever she considers voting in an election to select one candidate for a position and there is at least one issue important to her, Kay uses the following principle in choosing which course of action to take: it is acceptable for me to vote for a candidate whose opinions differ from mine is only one issue important to Kay, and only Medina shares her opinion on that issue.

What this question is testing

Principle-Conform

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.

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The question
23.

According to the principle stated in the passage, in the upcoming

Answer choices

  1. Contradicted1% picked this

    it is acceptable for Kay to vote for either Medina or Legrand, but it is unacceptable for her

    It's only acceptable to vote for M. It's unacceptable to vote for L and N.

  2. Correct58% picked this

    the only unacceptable courses of action are for Kay to vote for Norton and for her

    Why this is right

    This is said in a super-weird way, but sure. L and N were unacceptable. So the only unacceptable options were voting for N or for L. To be fair, there could be some other principle she also follows that would make it unacceptable for her to vote for M, but this question stem is specifically asking about what this principle dictates.

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

  3. Contradicted10% picked this

    it is unacceptable for Kay to vote for any of

    It's acceptable to vote for M. (It's unacceptable to vote for L and N.)

  4. Contradicted15% picked this

    the only unacceptable course of action is for Kay to vote

    It's acceptable to vote for M. It's unacceptable to vote for L and N. This answer would be correct if it said "the only acceptable course of action is to vote for M".

  5. Contradicted16% picked this

    it is acceptable for Kay to vote for any of

    It's only acceptable to vote for M. It's unacceptable to vote for L and N.

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