Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT136 S2 Q14 Explanation

Only Canadian films are shown

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Stimulus

Only Canadian films are shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival. This year, most of the films that won prizes at that at international film festivals.

What this question is testing

Must be True

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
14.

If the above statements are true, which one of the following statements must

Answer choices

  1. Unsupported Relationship6% picked this

    This year, most of the Canadian films that were shown at international film festivals won prizes at the

    The statements do not suggest how many Canadian films were shown at international film festivals. This assumes that few, if any, Canadian films other than the ones that won prizes were shown at international film festivals.

  2. Too Strong1% picked this

    Most of the Canadian films produced this year were shown at the Lac

    While the statements support the view that some of the Canadian films produced this year were shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival, it goes too far to say that most of them were.

  3. Correct90% picked this

    Some of the films that won prizes at international film festivals this year

    Why this is right

    The second statement IFF + WP ?some? LNFF can be reduced in many ways, but the way it applies to this answer is that some films that won prizes at international film festivals were at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival. Together with the first IFF + WP ?some? LNFF statement implies that LNFF ? CF some of the films that ? IFF + WP ?some? CF won prizes at international film festivals were Canadian films.

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

  4. Unsupported Relationship2% picked this

    This year, not every film that won a prize at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival was also shown

    Most of the films that won prizes at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival were shown at international film festivals. But that does not mean that some of those films were not shown at international film festivals. The idea of “most” includes the possibility of “all.”

  5. Unsupported Relationship2% picked this

    This year, at least one film that won a prize at an international film festival was not shown at

    While it is implied that some of the films that won prizes at an international film festival were shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival, that does not mean that some of those films were not shown at the Lac Nichoutec Film Festival.

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