Most people who are skilled banjo

Answer choices

1. A

   Contradicted6% picked this

   There are more people who are skilled at playing both the guitar and the banjo than there are people who are skilled at playing

   The people who do guitar and banjo are a minority (under 50%) of the total guitar playing group. So the number of people skilled only at guitar has to be bigger than the number of people skilled at both.

   6%
2. B

   Out of Scope4% picked this

   A person trying to learn how to play the guitar is more likely to succeed in doing so than is a person trying to

   Out of Scope: more likely to succeed This is a Must Be True question and there's no way we can invent ideas about which instrument one is more likely to succeed on.

   4%
3. C

   Unsupported Comparison: more skill1% picked this

   Playing the guitar takes more skill than playing the

   Just like (B), the idea of takes more skill is completely out of scope, and we could never derive that idea from facts that are purely mathematical in nature.

   1%
4. D

   Correct82% picked this

   There are more people who are skilled at playing the guitar than there are people who are skilled

   Why this is right

   Let's say that there are x people who are good at banjo and guitar. We are told that x > 50% of skilled banjoists. We are told that x < 50% of skilled guitarists. That means that skilled guitarists has to be a bigger number. If I say, "Whoa, I can't pay $3000 a month for that apartment. That's more than half my monthly income" and my friend Regina says, "That's less than half of my monthly income", we can infer two things: - Regina's a jerk - Regina makes more money per month than I do

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

   82%
5. E

   Contradicted7% picked this

   There are more people who are skilled at playing the banjo than there are people who are skilled

   The correct answer is the opposite of this idea, so check out the breakdown of the stimulus and the explanation for (C) again to remind yourself why there have to be more guitarists than banjo players.

   7%