Rhonda will see the movie tomorrow

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Premise Match: no chain3% picked this

   If Janice comes to visit, Mary will not pay the bills tomorrow. Janice will not come to visit unless she locates a babysitter. However,

   These two conditional premises don't form a chain. They start from the same trigger: J visits → ~Mary pays J visits → J finds babysitter

   3%
2. B

   Correct83% picked this

   Gary will do his laundry tomorrow only if Peter has to go to work. Unless Cathy is ill, Peter will not have to go

   Why this is right

   We need two premises that chain together A → B B → C G laundry → P work P work → C ill Then we need a premise saying "not C" C is not ill and a conclusion saying "not A" G not laundry The hardest part of this answer is dealing with the second conditional. We know that "unless" means "If-not" and that you can do the "if-not" to either idea in the sentence. So we can choose to write it as If Cathy is not ill, Peter will not have to work. or write is as If Peter will not not have to work, Cathy is ill. The double negative gives us, If Peter will have to work, Cathy is ill.

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

   83%
3. C

   Bad Premise Match: only 1 conditional3% picked this

   Kelly will barbecue fish tonight if it does not rain and the market has fresh trout. Although the forecast does not call for rain,

   This argument only has that one conditional in the first sentence, so we're not going to get the two conditionals chaining together that we had in the original.

   3%
4. D

   Bad Premise Match: only 1 conditional4% picked this

   Lisa will attend the family reunion next week only if one of her brothers, Jared or Karl, also attends. Karl will not attend the

   This argument only has that one conditional in the first sentence, so we're not going to get the two conditionals chaining together that we had in the original.

   4%
5. E

   Bad Premise/Conclusion Match6% picked this

   George will not go to the museum tomorrow unless Mark agrees to go. Mark will go to the museum only if he can postpone

   This argument does have two conditional premises that chain together: G museum → M museum M museum → postpone most The next two ingredients we would need to hear are, "But Mark will not postpone most of his appointments. So George will not go to the museum." However, the premise says Mark postponed some of his appointments, and the conclusion says Mark will not go to the museum.

   6%