Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT112 S1 Q11 Explanation

Any sale item that is purchased

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TopicsMust be True

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Stimulus

Any sale item that is purchased can be returned for store credit but not for a refund of the purchase price. Every home appliance and every piece of along with selected construction tools.

What this question is testing

Must be True

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
11.

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must

Answer choices

  1. Opposite Logic3% picked this

    Any item that is not a home appliance or a piece of gardening equipment is

    The easiest way to dispense with this answer is that it's talking about things that are returnable for a refund, and the paragraph didn't discuss anything that was refundable. It only mentioned sale items, which can't be refunded. This answer is trying to bait people into going from what we know: home appliance or → on sale → not refundable gardening equip to an illegal negation of what we know: not home appliance or → is refundable not gardening equip

  2. Opposite Logic3% picked this

    Any item that is not on sale cannot be returned for

    This answer is also trying to bait people into going from what we know: on sale → can get store credit to an illegal negation of what we know: not on sale → can't get store credit

  3. Out of Scope15% picked this

    Some construction tools are not returnable for

    Out of Scope: can't get store credit We were never given any information about anything that can't be returned for store credit. For all we know, everything in the store can be returned for store credit.

  4. Correct78% picked this

    No piece of gardening equipment is returnable for

    Why this is right

    This was one of our inferences: all gardening equipment is on sale, so all gardening equipment can be returned for store credit but not for a refund.

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

  5. Too Strong: none1% picked this

    None of the things that are returnable for a refund are

    We know that 'selected construction tools', the ones that are on sale, are not returnable for a refund. But there might be other construction tools that aren't on sale that are returnable for a refund.

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