Logical Reasoning

PT2 · S2 · Q13 If retail stores experience a decrease

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If retail stores experience a decrease in revenues during this holiday season, then either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have changed or prices have risen beyond the level most people can afford.

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.

13.

Assume the premises above to be true. If salaries have kept pace with rising prices during the past year, which one of the following must be true?

  1. Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have

    Untriggered Conditional

    We would only know this if we had been told that revenues were decreasing.

    15% picked this

  2. Retail stores will not experience

    Too Strong

    It's possible that there's been a decrease in revenue, as long as attitudes towards extravagant gifts have changed.

    7% picked this

  3. Correct

    Prices in retail stores have

    Why this is right

    The new fact in the question stem triggers the contrapositive of the final sentence of the stimulus, yielding this idea.

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

    69% picked this

  4. Attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving have

    Too Strong

    We have no idea whether attitudes have changed or whether revenues have decreased. It's possible that both of those things happened.

    5% picked this

  5. Either attitudes toward extravagant gift-giving

    Untriggered Conditional

    We would only know this if we had been told that revenues were decreasing.

    4% picked this

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