Logical Reasoning

PT142 · S2 · Q17 Herbalist: While standard antibiotics

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Herbalist: While standard antibiotics typically have just one active ingredient, herbal antibacterial remedies typically contain several.

Analogy

Bacteria Cook vs. vs. Herbal Antibacterial Several dozen remedy dinner guests

hard for bacteria hard for cook to resist herbal to think of right antibacterial remedy meal to prepare because it must because they must deal with deal with many active several dozen ingredients guests

Standard Easier meal Antibiotic to plan?

Has only one Has only one active ingredient person to cook for

Easier for bacteria Easier for cook to solve problem to think of something of resistance that will please

Evaluation / Goal

This is a really weird one-off question. There are lots of Logical Completion questions that ask us to complete the analogy, but I've never seen a question stem structured this way.

The standard antibiotic has only one active ingredient, so the cook should have an easier time pleasing only one eater.

17.

In the analogy drawn in the argument above, which one of the following corresponds to a standard antibiotic?

  1. Correct

    a single guest

    Why this is right

    Only one "problem to solve" with a standard antibiotic or a single guest, when it comes to figuring out resistance or figuring out a meal that will please.

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

    76% picked this

  2. several dozen guests

    Herbal Antibacterial Remedy

    Because the herbal kind has many active ingredients, it lined up with many different eaters.

    3% picked this

  3. the pleasure experienced by a

    Out Of Scope: "pleasure"

    If it had asked, "what would match up with resisting a standard antibiotic", we could say "pleasing a single eater". But they asked us to match the antibiotic itself.

    10% picked this

  4. a cook

    Matches Bacteria

    The cook and the bacteria strain are both trying to solve a problem (how to resist this antibacterial ... how to please so many different eaters)

    8% picked this

  5. the ingredients available to a

    Out Of Scope: "ingredients"

    We never discuss what goes into the standard or herbal antibiotic. "Ingredients" would be involved whether the cook is trying to please several dozen guests or just one, so this has no special connection to Standard antibiotic, as opposed to the herbal one.

    3% picked this

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