Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT113 S4 Q3 Explanation

An instructor presented two paintings

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Stimulus

An instructor presented two paintings to a class. She said that the first had hung in prestigious museums but the second was produced by an unknown amateur. Each student was asked which painting was better. Everyone selected the first. The instructor later presented the same two paintings in the same order to prestigious museums. In this class, everyone said that the second painting was better.

What this question is testing

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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
3.

The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of

Answer choices

  1. Trap5% picked this

    Most of the students would not like any work of art that they believed to have been produced

  2. Trap1% picked this

    None of the claims that the instructor made about the paintings

  3. Trap5% picked this

    Each of the students would like most of the paintings hanging in

  4. Correct86% picked this

    In judging the paintings, some of the students were affected by what they had been told about the

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap3% picked this

    Had the instructor presented the paintings without telling the students anything about them, almost all of the students would have judged them to

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