PT30.S2.Q20 - justified public funding

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• CFC152436 Alum Member

  August 2014 edited August 2014 284 karma

  We're given a conditional statement:
  "Justified public funding ---> Indicated that public will benefit"
  
  Then we're given a second conditional statement: "if the critics were right about this, then there would be not be tremendous support..." The tricky part is remembering that the "this" refers back to our original conditional statement. In other words, the sufficient condition of our second conditional statement is its own conditional statement. The diagram looks like this:
  
  [Justified public funding---> Indicated that public will benefit project] ---> ~Tremendous public support
  
  But then we're told that the there actually is a tremendous amount of public support. Using this piece of information, we can make a valid inference (i.e. take the contrapositive) from the conditional statement above.
  
  Tremendous public support ---> ~[Justified public funding---> Indicated that public will benefit project]
  
  What does this inference say? Well, because there is a lot of tremendous public support, the critic's conditional statement is false. What does it mean when a conditional statement is false? Essentially, it means we can have the sufficient condition occur and not have the necessary condition follow. This is the inference the question wants us to make, and it is represented perfectly by answer choice E.
  
  Hope this helps! Let me know something doesn't make sense
  
  
• Peter Free Trial Member

  August 2014 90 karma

  ah i see my mistake now. Thanks!