PT116.S3.Q25

PrepTest 116 - Section 3 - Question 25

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Conclusion Wealth is not a good thing, for Support good things cause no harm at all, yet Support wealth is often harmful to people.

Method of Reasoning

This is a valid argument based on the contrapositive.

good thing → cause NO harm

wealth → does cause harm

Conclusion:

wealth → NOT a good thing

(Use the contrapositive of the first premise — if something DOES carm harm, then it’s not a good thing. Note that the “often” in the second premise shouldn’t be translated as a “some.” That’s because the point of stating that wealth is often harmful is to indicate that wealth is something that does cause harm — whether it happens “often” or more often than that isn’t what’s important. What’s important is that wealth does cause harm. That’s why it would be wrong and missing the point of the argument to diagram “often” or to think that it’s important to the reasoning.)

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25.

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a

Alex loves to █████ ███ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████ ████ █████ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██ ███ █████ █████

b

Isabella must be █ █████████ █████ ███ ██████ █ █████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ███████

c

Growth in industry ██ ███ █ ████ █████ ███ ███ █████ ████████ ███ ███████ █████ ████████ ███ █████████ █████ ██ ███████████

d

Sarah's dog is ███ █ ██████████ ███ ██ █████ ████ █████ ███ ████ ██████████ ████ ███████

e

There is usually ████ ███████ ██ ████ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ██ █ ████████ ███ █████ █████ ██ ███ █ ████████ ██ ██ ██████████ ████ █████ ██ ██ ██████ ████████

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