Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT119 S4 Q22 Explanation

All highly successful salespersons are

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TopicsMust be True

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Stimulus

All highly successful salespersons are both well organized and self-motivated, characteristics absent from many salespersons who are not highly successful. Further, although only those who are highly successful are well known are self-motivated regret their career choices.

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
22.

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

Answer choices

  1. Unsupported Relationship10% picked this

    No self-motivated salespersons who are not highly successful are

    This says: self-motivated salesperson not well and ? organized not highly successful We only have a way to prove people are well-organized. There's no rule that allows us to say "anyone who has this quality is not well organized".

  2. Unsupported Relationship3% picked this

    All salespersons who are well organized but not highly successful

    This says well organized and ? self-motivated not highly successful We only have one way to prove "self-motivated", and that's knowing that someone is a highly successful salesperson. If the salesperson in this answer choice is not highly successful, then we have no idea if they're self-motivated.

  3. Correct71% picked this

    No salespersons who are well known among their peers regret their

    Why this is right

    This says, for salespersons ... well known ? don't regret career choices We can derive this. Well known salespersons are always highly successful. Highly successful ones are always self-motivated. Self-motivated ones never regret their career choices.

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

  4. Unsupported Relationship4% picked this

    All salespersons who are not well organized regret their

    This says, for salespersons .. not well organized ? regret career choices We only have a rule that allows us to say that you don't regret career choices (if you're self-motivated). We have no means of deriving that anyone does regret career choices.

  5. Unsupported Relationship12% picked this

    All salespersons who do not regret their career choices are

    This says, for salespersons ... don't regret ? highly successful career choices The only mechanism we have for proving "highly successful" is knowing that a salesperson is well-known. Do we know that "if you don't regret career choices, you're well known"? No. So, we have no means to get from "don't regret" to "highly successful".

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