Mayor: To keep our neighborhoods clean

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: all3% picked this

   All neighborhoods in which construction is under way are

   This says that we can derive a conditional that says, If construction ? then a neighborhood is under way is qualified We don't have any triggers that match "if construction is under way". There's no way for us to say that 100% of neighborhoods where construction is taking place are qualified neighborhoods. Construction was brought up as an example of one situation in which a neighborhood might need more frequent sweeping due to excessive dirt from major construction. It didn't say that all neighborhoods with any construction have excessive dirt and need more frequent cleanings.

   3%
2. B

   Too Strong: will4% picked this

   All qualified neighborhoods will get their streets swept more than once

   This answer is somewhat tempting, but a qualified neighborhood isn't automatically getting a second sweeping per month. We only know that if a qualified neighborhood requests an interim sweeping that they will get their streets swept more than once a month. There could be qualified neighborhoods that never request (and thus never get) the interim sweeping. So it's too strong to say that all qualified neighborhoods will automatically get extra sweepings. We could have picked an answer saying all qualified neighborhoods can get swept more than once per month.

   4%
3. C

   Illegal Negation5% picked this

   No street will be swept more than once a month unless it is located in

   We know that "if a street is part of a qualified neighborhood, then it can get swept more than once". This answer is twisting that into "if a street is not part of a qualified neighborhood, then it cannot get swept more than once". Being designated a "qualified neighborhood" is the only case we heard about in which a street would get an extra sweeping, but that doesn't mean it's the only case in existence.

   5%
4. D

   Correct86% picked this

   A qualified neighborhood that requests an interim sweeping will have its streets swept more than

   Why this is right

   This combines all three ideas in the paragraph (the correct answer doesn't need to combine all the provided facts, but it almost always combines at least 2 claims). We know that every street by default gets at least one sweeping per month, and we know that if a qualified neighborhood requests sweepings then it will get an interim (additional) sweeping. So we can say that when a qualified neighborhood requests an interim sweeping, they end up getting an interim sweeping. And an "interim" sweeping by definition means "in the interim between this month's and next month's regularly scheduled cleaning". So any time you get an interim sweeping, you're getting more than one sweeping in a month,

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

   86%
5. E

   Illegal Negation3% picked this

   No street in an unqualified neighborhood will be swept more than once a month even if

   We know that "if a street is part of a qualified neighborhood, then it can get swept more than once". This answer is twisting that into "if a street is not part of a qualified neighborhood, then it cannot get swept more than once". Being designated a "qualified neighborhood" is the only case we heard about in which a street would get an extra sweeping, but that doesn't mean it's the only case in existence. It's possible that a street in an unqualified neighborhood gets an extra cleaning. Nothing in this paragraph rules out that possibility.

   3%