Logical Reasoning

PT136 · S4 · Q21 If the city starts requiring

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If the city starts requiring residents to sort the materials that they put out for recycling, then many residents will put more recyclables in with their regular garbage.

Given

If the city starts requiring RSM → RWG residents to sort the materials that they put out for recycling, then many residents will put more recyclables in with their regular garbage.

This [more recyclables in ↑RG → ↑RL with the garbage] will result in more recyclables being buried in the city's landfill.

However, because of the SWB → RSM cost of having city workers do the sorting, the sanitation department will not stay within its budget unless the sorting requirement for residents [sort materials] is implemented.

21.

Which one of the following statements logically follows from the information above?

  1. Most of the city's residents

    Reversal

    The first statement indicates that some residents would recycle less if they were required to sort the materials that they put out for recycling, but that does not mean that most residents would continue to recycle.

    1% picked this

  2. If the city starts requiring

    Too Strong

    Whether the recyclables that end up in the regular garbage all come from residents who abandon recycling or whether many residents simply are less diligent with their recycling efforts is not indicated in the statements.

    1% picked this

  3. Implementing the sorting requirement would

    Unsupported Comparison

    This answer wants us to compare "the current yearly cost to sort recyclables (which doesn't include a sorting requirement for residents)" vs. "the hypothetical yearly cost of sending garbage to the landfill (with the sorting requirement in in place)". We don't have any way to assess what they currently pay per year for the city to sort recyclables. We don't know how much it currently costs to send garbage to the landfill. There's no way to compare those costs, now or in the future, with or without the sorting requirement.

    13% picked this

  4. Correct

    The amount of recyclables going

    Why this is right

    The statements together SWB → ↑RL imply this is true.

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

    65% picked this

  5. If the city implements the

    Reversal

    This reverses the RSM → SWB third statement.

    19% picked this

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