Logical Reasoning

PT132 · S2 · Q21 Most large nurseries sell

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Most large nurseries sell raspberry plants primarily to commercial raspberry growers and sell only plants that are guaranteed to be disease-free.

Given

Most large nurseries sell raspberry LN -most→ CRG plants primarily to commercial raspberry growers.

Most large nurseries sell only LN -most→ GDF plants that are guaranteed to be disease-free.

However, the shipment of raspberry WP → ~DF plants that Johnson received from Wally's Plants carried a virus that commonly afflicts raspberries [not disease free].

21.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

  1. If Johnson is a commercial

    Wrong Trigger

    If Wally’s Plants is not a large nursery, then the first and second statement do not apply.

    2% picked this

  2. Johnson is probably not a

    Negation

    This relationship appears ~GDF -most→ ~LN to combine the first and LN → CRG second statement, but ჻ GDF -most→ ~CRG applies negated logic to the first statement.

    14% picked this

  3. If Johnson is not a

    Unsupported Relationship

    This attempts to contrapose the first statement, but “most” statements cannot be contraposed.

    18% picked this

  4. Wally's Plants is probably not

    Out of Scope

    The statements do not discuss whether a nursery is well-run.

    7% picked this

  5. Correct

    If Wally's Plants is a

    Why this is right

    If Wally’s Plants is a large nursery then it most likely guaranteed that the plants were disease free and the plants were not disease free.

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

    60% picked this

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