Any fruit that is infected

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal9% picked this

   It is not safe to eat any fruit that

   As soon as we see this answer contains "rotten", we know it's .... rotten. :) That first sentence was not actually a premise. It doesn't relate to inspected fruit, so it won't have anything to do with proving that "inspected fruit is safe". Sentences of the form "It is A to be B" get diagrammed like this: B ? A How do we know? Ask yourself how you would diagram the sentence, "It is wrong to lie to your mom". if you did something wrong ? lied to mom or if you lied to mom ? did something wrong The 2nd one is the correct translation. If you combine the two sentences we're given in the evidence with this answer, can you derive the conclusion? 1st: Infected ? Rotten (A): Rotten ? ~Safe 2nd: Infected ? ~Inspected We can't derive this logic path Inspected ? Safe The easiest way to see that is that we only have "not safe" on the right side of the arrow. We need to have "safe" on the right side of the arrow.

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2. B

   Unrelated to Goal18% picked this

   It is safe to eat any fruit that is

   As soon as we see this answer contains "rotten", we know it's .... rotten. :) That first sentence was not actually a premise. It doesn't relate to inspected fruit, so it won't have anything to do with proving that "inspected fruit is safe". Sentences of the form "It is A to be B" get diagrammed like this: B ? A If you combine the two sentences we're given in the evidence with this answer, can you derive the conclusion? 1st: ~Rotten ? ~Infected (B): ~Rotten ? Safe 2nd: Inspected ? ~Infected We can't derive this logic path Inspected ? Safe We can get from Inspected to ~Infected, but we don't have a way to get from ~Infected to Safe. That's because this answer is attaching itself to ideas in the first sentence, and the first sentence isn't connected in any way to "Inspected fruit".

   18%
3. C

   Wrong Tense Too Narrow2% picked this

   It would have been safe to eat infected fruit if it

   The conclusion is in simple present tense. This answer is in some weird counterfactual conditional tense. That's already showing us it doesn't match. This conditional allows us to say "Any infected fruit that would have been inspected would have been safe to eat". This is a narrower claim than what we're trying to prove: "Any fruit that was inspected is safe". This answer only establishes that infected fruit was safe to eat. It doesn't establish that uninfected fruit was safe to eat.

   2%
4. D

   Opposite Logic17% picked this

   It is not safe to eat any fruit that

   We're looking for ~Infected ? Safe to eat This gives us the illegal opposite version of that: Infected ? ~Safe to eat

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5. E

   Correct54% picked this

   It is safe to eat any fruit that

   Why this is right

   This gives us exactly what we were looking for (and given how annoying it is to explain the wrong answers, keep in mind how important it is on Sufficient Assumption to come to the answers already knowing what the correct answer should say. It's a question type where you don't need to work Wrong to Right. Solve for the missing idea upfront and then just go find it in the answers). When we combine the 2nd sentence Inspected ? ~Infected with answer choice (E) ~Infected ? Safe to eat we can derive the logic path of the conclusion Inspected -------------------> Safe to eat

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

   54%