Logical Reasoning

PT112 · S1 · Q11 Any sale item that is purchased

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Any sale item that is purchased can be returned for store credit but not for a refund of the purchase price.

Statements

conditionals (any, every - sufficient indicators)

Sale item → returnable for store credit and not refundable

Home appliance → Sale item

Gardening equipement → Sale item

Some selected construction tools are also on sale.

Evaluate

They provided us with 3 conditionals and 1 some statement. The only overlapping term is "on sale", so we should focus on that conditional.

If something is on sale, we know it's returnable for store credit but not refundable.

We were told about a bunch of stuff that's on sale, so we can derive inferences that this stuff is returnable for store credit but not refundable.

Goal

We'd expect the correct answer to reward one of these available inferences:

- Every home appliance can be returned for store credit but not for a refund.

- Every piece of gardening equipment can be returned for store credit but not for a refund.

- Certain construction tools can be returned for store credit but not for a refund.

11.

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

  1. Any item that is not

    Opposite Logic

    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

    3% picked this

  2. Any item that is not

    Opposite Logic

    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% picked this

  3. Some construction tools are not

    Out of Scope

    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.

    14% picked this

  4. Correct

    No piece of gardening equipment

    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.

    79% picked this

  5. None of the things that

    Too Strong: none

    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.

    1% picked this

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