Logical Reasoning

PT16 · S2 · Q20 Students from outside the province of Markland

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Students from outside the province of Markland, who in any given academic year pay twice as much tuition each as do students from Markland, had traditionally accounted for at least two-thirds of the enrollment at Central Markland College.

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.

20.

Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the statements above?

  1. If it had not been

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. If academic standards had not

    Trap

    11% picked this

  3. Over the past 10 years,

    Trap

    29% picked this

  4. Over the past 10 years,

    Trap

    2% picked this

  5. Correct

    If the college’s per capita

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    56% picked this

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