Logical Reasoning

PT125 · S2 · Q13 Consumers seek to purchase

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Consumers seek to purchase the highest quality at the lowest prices.

Evidence

Consumers seek to purchase the highest quality at the lowest prices.

Companies that do not offer ~AC → B products that attract consumers eventually go bankrupt.

Conclusion

Companies that offer ~Q + ~LP → B neither the best quality nor the lowest price will eventually go bankrupt.

Evaluate

The argument assumes ~Q + ~LP → ~AC that products that are neither the best quality nor the lowest price will not attract consumers.

13.

The conclusion above follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. No company succeeds in producing

    Too Weak

    This still permits some companies from achieving superiority quality or price. Furthermore, this does not link these characteristics to the ability to attract consumers.

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    Products that are neither highest

    Why this is right

    This provides the link between a ~Q + ~LP → ~AC product that is neither the best quality nor lowest in price and failing to attract consumers.

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

    80% picked this

  3. Any company that offers either

    Negation

    This negates the logic of Q or LP → ~B the argument’s conclusion.

    13% picked this

  4. Some consumers will not continue

    Too Weak

    Whether or not some consumers are willing to continue to patronize a company out of brand loyalty is not strong enough to determine whether or not the company would go bankrupt.

    1% picked this

  5. No company is driven from

    Out of Scope

    Bankruptcy will drive a company from a market as well as other factors, but those other factors are not relevant to the conclusion about what drives a company into bankruptcy.

    4% picked this

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