Logical Reasoning

PT136 · S4 · Q20 University president: We will be forced

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University president: We will be forced to reduce spending next year if we do not increase our enrollment.

Evidence

We will be forced to ~↑E → ↓S reduce spending next year if we do not increase our enrollment.

Without [more aggressive] marketing ~↑M → ~↑E we will be unable to increase our enrollment.

Conclusion

If we are to maintain MQ → ↑M the quality of the education we provide, we must market our programs more aggressively.

Evaluate

The argument assumes MQ → ~↓S that to maintain the quality of the education the university provides it must not reduce spending next year.

20.

The conclusion of the university president's argument can be properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

  1. The university will not maintain

    Reversal

    For this to prove the ↑E → ~MQ conclusion, it would require reversing the second premise.

    2% picked this

  2. The university will not need

    Negation

    This negates the ↑E → ~↓S first premise.

    6% picked this

  3. The university will increase its

    Negation

    This negates the ↑M → ↑E second premise.

    13% picked this

  4. Correct

    The university will not maintain

    Why this is right

    This bridges the MQ → ~↓S gap between maintaining the quality of education provided by the university and the need to not reduce spending.

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

    68% picked this

  5. The university will not need

    Negation

    This negates the ↑M → ~↓S inference of the first and second premise.

    11% picked this

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