No member of the Richardson

Answer choices

1. A

   Bad Premise / Conclusion Match1% picked this

   Not all of the employees of the Tedenco Company are salaried employees of that company. Since Mr. Lopez and Ms. Allen are both salaried

   The first claim is "not all X's are Y", which doesn't match anything in the original, so I would stop reading there. The conclusion is also about other people, not about our two characters, so that also doesn't match the original.

   1%
2. B

   Not a Flaw3% picked this

   No employee of the Tedenco Company is both an accountant and a corporate attorney. Since Ms. Walsh is both an accountant and a corporate

   This is valid logic. No one at Tedenco Company is both X and Y. Since Walsh is both X and Y, then it is correct to infer that she is not part of Tedenco Company.

   3%
3. C

   Correct86% picked this

   No company can have its headquarters in both Canada and Mexico. Since neither the Dumone Company nor the Tedenco Company has its headquarters in

   Why this is right

   Nothing in the category of "company" can have headquarters in both Canada and Mexico. Dumone and Tedenco are both companies. Dumone and Tedenco do not have headquarters in Mexico. Thus, they have their headquarters in Canada. We'd have a similar objection: "just because you can't have headquarters in both Canada and Mexico doesn't mean you must have your headquarters in one or the other. Maybe your headquarters is in neither one of them. (It's in the Cayman Islands, duh)

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

   86%
4. D

   Not a Flaw10% picked this

   No corporate attorney represents both the Dumone Company and the Tedenco Company. Since Ms. Tseung is a corporate attorney who represents the Dumone Company,

   This is valid logic. If no corporate attorney represents both Dumone Company and Tedenco Company, and Tseung is a corporate attorney who represents Dumone Company, then it is valid to conclude that she cannot also represent Tedenco Company.

   10%
5. E

   Trap1% picked this

   No member of the board of directors of the Dumone Company is also a member of the board of directors of the Tedenco Company.

   Bad Premise / Conclusion Match Not a Flaw This starts off with the "if you're in this category, you can't be both X and Y" conditional. But then it veers off into a strange math land that doesn't resemble the original. Also, the math is totally valid.

   1%