Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT154 S2 Q7 ExplanationLibrary policy: For a book

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Stimulus

Library policy: For a book to be removed from circulation, the book must be badly damaged and must not have been checked out for over two years. Books that are either written by local authors or are considered to be of significance to local history have not been checked out for over three years.

Application: Paper Flowers should not be removed

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

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
7.

Which one of the following, if true, fully justifies the above application of

Answer choices, explained

  1. Opposite1% picked this

    Paper Flowers is badly

    We would want to hear that it isn't badly damaged, if we're trying to conclude that we shouldn't remove it from circulation.

  2. Correct90% picked this

    Paper Flowers has been checked out within the

    Why this is right

    Yup, this was #2. According to the first sentence, only books that haven't been checked out for over two years are allowed to be removed from circulation. Since this book has been checked out within the last two years, it can't be removed from circulation.

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

  3. Unclear Impact6% picked this

    Paper Flowers was last checked out between two and three

    This answer starts to make it eligible for criteria #3 but doesn't fully establish criteria #3. If it's "locally important" and has been checked out in the past three years, then it shouldn't be removed. But this answer choice doesn't establish that it's locally important.

  4. Unclear Impact1% picked this

    Paper Flowers was written by a

    This answer starts to make it eligible for criteria #3 but doesn't fully establish criteria #3. If it's "locally important" and has been checked out in the past three years, then it shouldn't be removed. But this answer choice doesn't establish that it's been checked out in the past three years. This answer is essentially the exact same problem as choice (C).

  5. Unclear Impact2% picked this

    Paper Flowers was not written by a local author, but is considered to be of

    This answer starts to make it eligible for criteria #3 but doesn't fully establish criteria #3. If it's "locally important" and has been checked out in the past three years, then it shouldn't be removed. But this answer choice doesn't establish that it's been checked out in the past three years. So this one has the same problem as (C) and (D).

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