PT102.S4.Q9

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PrepTest 102 - Section 4 - Question 9

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The Board of Trustees of the Federici Art Museum has decided to sell some works from its collection in order to raise the funds necessary to refurbish its galleries. ████████ ████ ███ ████ ████ █ ███████ ███████ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██████████ ████ █████ ███ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ████████ █████████ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ███████ ████████████ ████████ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ████ ███ ██ ████████ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████████

Summary

The argument concludes that the Federici Art Museum’s board will not harm the quality of the museum’s collection by selling some artworks to raise funds. Why not? Because, according to the museum’s curator, the collection includes several inferior works that don’t contribute to the collection’s overall quality.

Notable Assumptions

The argument relies on the assumption that the curator is correct that some works in the museum’s collection don’t contribute to the collection’s quality. Otherwise, the curator’s opinion wouldn’t support the conclusion.

It also relies on the assumption that the board will only sell artworks that the curator has identified as inferior—in other words, that the board won’t sell high-quality artworks that are important to the collection.

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We have no idea if the opinions of art speculators reflect the true quality of an artwork, so this is irrelevant to the actual impact of the board’s decision on the quality of the collection.

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This is necessary because the curator’s opinion that some works are inferior only supports the conclusion if the board plans to sell the inferior works. If the board were planning to sell other works, the conclusion would be unsupported.

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Whether or not the collection includes some works by Renoir and Cézanne that were purchased by other individuals has no impact on the argument.

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Who would pay what prices for which artworks is irrelevant. The argument is focused on the impact to the collection’s quality, not the strategic points of fundraising.

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It’s irrelevant whether or not any artwork will be appreciated. The argument is just concerned with the quality of the collection, not how people interact with it.

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