PT103.S2.Q7

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PrepTest 103 - Section 2 - Question 7

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Speakers of the Caronian language constitute a minority of the population in several large countries. ██ █████████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███ ███████ █████ █████████████████ ████ ██ ███████ ████████ ██ ██ ███████████ ██████ ██ █████ █████████████████ █████ ████ █ █████████ ███ █████████████████ ████ ██ ████████ ██████ █████████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ █ ██████ ██████████ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████ █████████████████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ███████████ ██████ ███ ██████████████ ██████ ██ ██████████

Summary

The argument concludes that it’s impossible to satisfy a recommendation that regions with many Caronian-speakers be allowed to form an independent, Caronian-majority nation. This is because Caronian-speakers live in scattered areas that wouldn’t fit into a single continuous border without including a majority population of non-Caronian-speakers.

Notable Assumptions

The argument disqualifies the idea of a Caronian-majority nation on the basis that such a nation would be impossible within a continuous border. This assumes that it’s impossible to create a Caronian-majority nation with a discontinuous border—that includes several disconnected regions.

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The argument relies on which ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████████████

A nation once ███████ ██ █████ █████████████████ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████

The argument doesn’t rely on a Caronian-majority nation having previously existed. In fact, this doesn’t affect the argument at all one way or another, so is not necessary.

Caronian-speakers tend to ████████ ██████████ ██ ████████████ █ ██████ ██████████

The argument’s analysis of whether it’s possible to create a Caronian-majority nation operates independently of how Caronian-speakers perceive themselves, making this not necessary.

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This must be assumed, because it’s the only way that the conclusion is supported by the premise that forming a continuous Caronian-majority nation would be impossible. If a disconnected nation were possible, the conclusion would be unsupported.

The new Caronian ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ██████ ███ ████ ███ █████ █████████

The argument only cares about non-Caronian-speakers to the extent that they can’t form a majority in the proposed Caronian nation. Whether or not they will be citizens is irrelevant.

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The typical language situation of most nations is irrelevant to whether it’s possible to create a new Caronian-majority nation.

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97% of people who answer get this correct

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75% 146

Analysis

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Necessary assumption

Stems that ask us to identify a claim that, if NOT true, would entirely undermine the reasoning in the stimulus.

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Link assumption

Arguments that feature an unjustified shift from one concept to another, which don't fit neatly into other common flaw categories (e.g. moving from premises about "houses" to a conclusion about "dwellings").

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