Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT23 S3 Q14 Explanation

If the proposed tax reduction package

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Stimulus

If the proposed tax reduction package is adopted this year, the library will be forced to discontinue its daily story hours for children. But if the daily story hours are discontinued, many parents will be greatly package will not be adopted this year.

What this question is testing

Sufficient Assumption

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

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The question
14.

Which one of the following, if assumed, allows the argument’s conclusion to

Answer choices

  1. Illegal Opposite3% picked this

    Any tax reduction package that will not force the library to discontinue daily story hours will

    A useful answer could have said tax package will force library ? will not be adopted to discontinue this year daily story hours This answer flips the truth value on both the trigger and the outcome.

  2. Unrelated to Goal (new term missing)10% picked this

    Every tax reduction package that would force the library to discontinue daily story hours would

    This doesn't have any wording about whether or not something will be adopted this year. Since our entire job is to prove something "won't be adopted", and since the argument didn't provide any rule for what will / won't be adopted, the correct answer must.

  3. Unrelated to Goal (new term missing)2% picked this

    No tax reduction package that would greatly inconvenience parents would fail to force the library to

    This doesn't have any wording about whether or not something will be adopted this year. Since our entire job is to prove something "won't be adopted", and since the argument didn't provide any rule for what will / won't be adopted, the correct answer must.

  4. Correct82% picked this

    No tax reduction package that would greatly inconvenience parents will be

    Why this is right

    This says greatly inconvenience ? won't be adopted parents this year We know this tax reduction package would force daily story hours at the library to stop. We know that that would greatly inconvenience parents. And if we add on this rule that anything that would inconvenience parents won't be adopted, then we can derive the idea that the new tax reduction package won't be adopted this year.

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

  5. Illegal Opposite3% picked this

    Any tax reduction package that will not greatly inconvenience parents will be

    We were looking for: does greatly inconvenience ? not adopted And this is saying doesn't greatly inconvenience ? adopted The trigger and the outcome are both flipped from how we want them.

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