Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT9 S4 Q16 Explanation

G: The group of works

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Stimulus

G: The group of works exhibited in this year’s Metropolitan Art Show reveals a bias in favor of photographers. Equal numbers of photographers, sculptors, and painters submitted works that met the traditional criteria for the show, yet more photographs were exhibited than either sculptures allowed to submit work in one medium only.

H: How could there have been bias? All submitted works that met the traditional criteria—and only in the show.

What this question is testing

Must be True

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
16.

If both G’s assertions and H’s assertion are true, which one of the following must

Answer choices

  1. Trap9% picked this

    More photographers than sculptors or painters submitted works to be considered for exhibition in the

  2. Trap10% picked this

    All the works submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show met the traditional criteria

  3. Trap2% picked this

    The quality of photographs exhibited in the Metropolitan Art Show was inferior to the quality of the

  4. Trap5% picked this

    Some of the photographs submitted for the Metropolitan Art Show did not meet the traditional

  5. Correct75% picked this

    More works that met the traditional criteria for the Metropolitan Art Show were submitted by photographers than

    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.

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