Logical Reasoning

PT105 · S1 · Q12 Alice will volunteer to work

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Alice will volunteer to work on the hospital fund­raising drive only if her brother Bruce also volunteers and a majority of the others working on the drive promise to select Bruce to manage the drive.

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.

12.

In which one of the following arguments is the pattern of reasoning most similar to the pattern of reasoning in the argument above?

  1. Bill and Steve will work

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. Leon will go to the

    Trap

    6% picked this

  3. Correct

    Jim will go to the

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    87% picked this

  4. If Paula works with Elise,

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. Therese will work in the

    Trap

    5% picked this

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