Logical Reasoning

PT132 · S2 · Q3 Medications with an unpleasant

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Medications with an unpleasant taste are generally produced only in tablet, capsule, or soft-gel form.

Evidence

Medications with an unpleasant PT (T or C or SG) taste are generally produced only in tablet, capsule, or soft-gel form.

The active ingredient in T medication M is a waxy substance that cannot tolerate the heat used to manufacture tablets because it has a low melting point.

The company developing M S does not have soft-gel manufacturing technology and manufactures all its medications itself.

Conclusion

M will most likely be produced C in capsule form.

Evaluate

The argument assumes that PT medication M has an unpleasant taste.

3.

The conclusion is most strongly supported by the reasoning in the argument if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. Medication M can be produced

    Too Weak

    Although medication M can be produced in liquid form, the company developing M does not have soft-gel manufacturing technology.

    1% picked this

  2. Correct

    Medication M has an unpleasant

    Why this is right

    This provides the missing assumption. ~PT

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

    87% picked this

  3. No medication is produced in

    Irrelevant Relationship

    This suggests that if a medication C → ~SG is produced in capsule form, then it is not produced in soft-gel form.

    4% picked this

  4. Most medications with a low

    Out of Scope

    Other medications are not relevant to this argument.

    5% picked this

  5. Medications in capsule form taste

    Reversal / Too Weak

    This reverses an inference C → ~PT from the evidence.

    2% picked this

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