Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT142 S1 Q24 Explanation

Any driver involved in an accident

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Stimulus

Any driver involved in an accident leading to personal injury or property damage exceeding $500 is legally required to report the accident to the department of motor vehicles, unless the driver is incapable of doing so. Ted is which he was involved as a driver.

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
24.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the

Answer choices

  1. Unsupported Relationship5% picked this

    If Ted is incapable of reporting the accident, then the accident did not lead to

    This answer tries to make one of our two options guarantee the other, but it's certainly possible that Ted is incapable but his accident did lead to damage > $500. Someone who is the driver in an accident that does more than $500 but is incapable of reporting the accident isn't covered by this rule (“unless they're incapable” signifies an exception).

  2. Correct54% picked this

    If Ted's car was damaged in excess of $500 in the accident, then he is incapable of reporting the accident to

    Why this is right

    If Ted triggers the injury/damage rule, then his only remaining way of not having to report the accident is that he's incapable. At first we might wonder whether it's cool that the property damage was to his own car, but the rule doesn't specify whether the damage was inflicted on someone else or oneself.

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

  3. Out of Scope: someone else2% picked this

    Someone other than Ted is legally required to report the accident to the department

    This rule is not guaranteeing that someone better report this thing! It's possible that no one is legally required to report this accident.

  4. Could Be Both7% picked this

    If Ted is incapable of reporting the accident to the department of motor vehicles, then he was

    If Ted is incapable of reporting, it might ALSO be true that the accident didn't trigger the injury/damage part of the rule. We knew that Ted was incapable, didn't trigger the injury/damage rule, or both.

  5. Could Be Incapable31% picked this

    Either no one was injured in the accident or the accident did not lead to

    It's possible that neither injury nor > $500 damage happened, because the other option is that Ted is incapable of reporting.

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