PT136.S4.Q16

PrepTest 136 - Section 4 - Question 16

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Principle: Support Employees of telemarketing agencies should never do anything that predisposes people to dislike the agencies' clients.

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Summary

The application concludes that an employee shouldn’t try to talk someone into buying a client’s product if that person has told the employee that he doesn’t want to. The principle provides the premise: employees shouldn’t do anything that would predispose people to dislike their agencies’ clients.

Missing Connection

The application describes what employees shouldn’t do in a specific scenario, but the principle doesn’t mention that scenario. What does the principle say about things an employee shouldn’t do? Well, they shouldn’t do anything that predisposes people to dislike the agencies’ clients. So the correct answer will tell us that the scenario in the conclusion (trying to convince someone to buy a product when they’ve said they don’t want to) leads to the result in the principle (predisposing that person to dislike the agencies’ clients).

We can simplify the conditional conclusion by kicking up the sufficient condition and taking for granted that the employee is trying to convince the person on the phone to buy a product, despite that person stating that he doesn’t want to.

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16.

Which one of the following, ██ █████ █████████ ███ █████ ███████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██████

a

Any employee of █ █████████████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ████ ██ █████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ██ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ███████

It doesn’t matter if an employee can make this determination. The argument is that no employee should ever try to talk someone into buying a product if that person has said he doesn’t want to, not that an employee can determine situations in which it’s acceptable to do so.

4%
b

Some employees of █████████████ ████████ ███ ████████ ██ ██ ███████ █████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ ███████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ██ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ███████

It doesn’t matter if an employee can make this determination. The argument is that no employee should ever try to talk someone into buying a product if that person has said he doesn’t want to, not that an employee can determine situations in which it’s acceptable to do so.

3%
c

Any employee of █ █████████████ ██████ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ████ ██ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████ ████████ █████████ ██████ ███ ███████

This justifies the application by closing the gap between “try to convince when told don’t want to buy” and “predispose to dislike.” As shown below, adding the assumption in answer choice (C) to the stimulus’ argument allows us to validly reach the conclusion!

89%
d

Some people that ██ ████████ ██ █ █████████████ ██████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ███ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████ ███ ███████

This doesn’t matter, because it doesn’t help us close the gap between predisposing someone to dislike a client and trying to convince that person to buy a product when he’s said that he doesn’t want to.

2%
e

People who are ███████ ███████████ ██ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ █ █████████████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ████ ███ ███████

This doesn’t matter, because it doesn’t help us close the gap between predisposing someone to dislike a client and trying to convince that person to buy a product when he’s said that he doesn’t want to.

2%

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