Each of the many people

Answer choices

1. A

   Out of Scope: active in circles8% picked this

   Some of the persons who are active in the town’s artistic circles received

   The paragraph didn't provide any information about people who are active in the town's artistic circles, so we can't derive any fact about them. It's somewhat suggested that people who attended the downtown arts fair are active in the town's artistic circles, but we were never told that people who attended the arts fair received any certificate.

   8%
2. B

   Correct71% picked this

   Not all of those who received community recognition certificates are active in the

   Why this is right

   Whenever we see negative formulations (no, few, not all), we convert them into their positive equivalents. No A's are B = All A's are ~B Few A's are B = Most A's are ~B Not all A's are B = Some A's are ~B So this answer is saying, "Some of those who received community recognition certificates are not active in the town's artistic circles". Yes, that's what we predicted. We know that some people who were at the spring cleanup are not active in the town's artistic circles, and we know that everyone at the spring cleanup received a certificate. So we can derive that some people not active in artistic circles received the certificate. Or, if you prefer, formally: Some NAAC are SCP + All SCP are RCRC ---------------------------------------- Some NAAC are RCRC (NAAC = not active artistic circles, SCP = spring cleanup participant, RCRC = received community recognition certificate)

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

   71%
3. C

   Illegal Negation12% picked this

   No participants in the downtown arts fair received community

   We have no means of proving that anyone didn't receive a certificate. We were only provided a rule that allows us to derive that someone did receive a certificate: attended spring cleanup ? rec'd certificate This answer is trying to bait people into thinking via this illegal negation: participated ? not attended ? not received in arts fair spring cleanup certificate

   12%
4. D

   Illegal Reversal9% picked this

   No person who received a community recognition certificate has not participated in

   This is a double negative, which implies a positive. "None of my friends have not seen the new Spiderman" means that "All of my friends have seen the new Spiderman". So this is saying, "All people who received a certificate have participated in the spring cleanup." That would just be illegally reversing the conditional we were given: attended spring cleanup ? rec'd certificate This answer is trying to bait people into thinking via this illegal reversal: rec'd certificate ? attended spring cleanup

   9%
5. E

   Out of Scope: town's environment0% picked this

   Persons who are active in the town’s artistic circles are not concerned with

   This concept of "concern for the town's environment" is wholly new and thus could not be derived from the existing text.

   0%