PT117.S3.Q17

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PrepTest 117 - Section 3 - Question 17

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Detective: Because Support the embezzler must have had specialized knowledge and access to internal financial records, Support we can presume that the embezzler worked for XYZ Corporation as either an accountant or an actuary. ███ ██ ██████████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ███ █████████████ ████ ██ ██ ██████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██ ███ ██████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that the embezzler is like one of the actuaries at XYZ Corporation. This is because the embezzler must have had specialized knowledge about financial records, and the author believes this proves the embezzler was either an accountant or an actuary at XYZ. And, the author believes the embezzler was unlikely to be an accountant, because the ledger mistakes that led to the discovery of the embezzlement probably wouldn’t have been made by an accountant.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that only accountants or actuaries at XYZ would have had the specialized knowledge necessary to do the embezzlement. The author also assumes that an actuary isn’t just as unlikely as an accountant is to make the kind of mistake that led to the discovery of the embezzlement.

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Each of the following weakens ███ ███████████ ████████ ███████

The actuaries' activities █████ ███████ ███ ███ ███████████ ████ ████ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██ ███ ████████████

This provides a reason to think actuaries are less likely than accountants are to have committed the embezzlement. If actuaries’ activities were more closely scrutinized, that suggests it was more difficult for them to cheat.

There is evidence ██ ████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████████████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██████ ██ ████████ █████████ ████████

This questions the assumption that only an actuary or accountant at XYZ could have had the specialized knowledge to commit the embezzlement. If someone outside XYZ could have had that knowledge, then the suspects don’t have to be limited in the way the author assumes.

XYZ Corporation employs █████ ████████████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███ ██████

Maybe each accountant had only a 49% chance of making the mistake that led to the discovery. But if there are 8 accountants, collectively the chance of one of those accountants making the mistake might be higher than the chance one of the two actuaries made the mistake.

An independent report ████████ ██████ ███ █████ ████ █████ █████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████████████

This doesn’t provide any reason to think the embezzler isn’t one of the actuaries. (D) helps establish that XYZ was vulnerable to embezzlement, but doesn’t suggest anything about what kind of person could have been the embezzler. (Correct because this is an EXCEPT question.)

Certain security measures ██ ███ ███████████ ████ ██ ████ █████████ ███ ███ █████████ ██ ████ ██████ ██ ████████ █████████ ███████ ████ ███ ███ ████████████

This provides a reason to think actuaries are less likely than accountants are to have committed the embezzlement.

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