Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT12 S4 Q9 Explanation

Some games, such as chess and soccer

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TopicsParallel

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Stimulus

Some games, such as chess and soccer, are competitive and played according to rules, but others, such as children’s games of make believe, are neither. Therefore, being competitive essential to being a game.

What this question is testing

Parallel

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
9.

Which one of the following is most similar in its logical features to

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    Both the gourmet and the glutton enjoy eating. However, one can be a glutton, but not a gourmet, without having an educated palate. Therefore,

  2. Trap2% picked this

    All North American bears eat meat. Some taxonomists, however, have theorized that the giant panda, which eats only bamboo shoots, is a kind of

  3. Trap1% picked this

    It is true that dogs occasionally eat vegetation, but if dogs were not carnivorous they would be shaped quite differently from the way they

  4. Correct93% picked this

    Most automobiles, and nearly all of those produced today, are gasoline-fueled and four-wheeled, but others, such as some experimental electric cars, are neither. Therefore,

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap2% picked this

    Montréal’s most vaunted characteristics, such as its cosmopolitanism and its vitality, are all to be found in many other cities. Therefore, cosmopolitanism and vitality

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