PT139.S4.Q2

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PrepTest 139 - Section 4 - Question 2

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For house painting, acrylic paints are an excellent choice. ████ ███████ ██████████ ████ █ ████ █████ ██████ ████████ ██████ ███ ████ █████████ █████ ██████ █████ ███████████ ███ ████ ████████ ████ █████████ ████████ ██████ ███████ ████ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ ███████ ██████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ████ ██████████ ████████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ████ █████ ███████

Summary

Acrylic paints are an excellent choice for house painting. This is because they provide smooth coverage, they dry quickly, they’re durable, and they’re easy to clean up. However, acrylic paint can’t fix surface defects such as cracked paint. These defects indicate an underlying problem like water damage that needs to be repaired.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

Because acrylic paints are excellent house paints even though they cannot fix surface defects, house paints do not need to be able to fix surface defects.

Not all excellent paints can fix surface defects such as badly cracked paint.

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

Badly cracked paint ██ ███ █ ██████ ██ █████ ███████ ███████████

Unsupported. The stimulus only says that badly cracked paint could be the result of water damage. Otherwise, we do not know what does and does not cause badly cracked paint.

Acrylics are the ████ ██████ ████ ███████ ██████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ████ █ ██████

Unsupported. “Acrylic paints are an excellent choice for house painting” and “they provide everything that a good paint should provide,” but this does not mean that they provide everything that a homeowner needs or that they are the only good paint.

Acrylics should not ██ ████ ██ █████ ████ █████ █████ ██ █████ ██████

Unsupported. Acrylic paints are not able to fix surface defects like badly cracked paint, but this is not enough information to say that they shouldn’t ever be used for painting over other kinds of house paint.

It is not █ ███████████ ██ █████ ██████ ████ ████ ███████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ██████

Strongly supported. Acrylic paint is an excellent choice for house paint even though it cannot correct surface defects such as badly cracked paint. Thus it is not a requirement of house paints that they correct such defects.

Acrylic paints come ██ ██ ████ █ █████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ███ █████ ███████

Unsupported. We are given no information about the available colors of acrylic paints or any other kinds of paints.

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94% of people who answer get this correct

This is a slightly challenging question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 129

138

75% 147

Analysis

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Most strongly supported

Stems that ask which answer choice is "most strongly supported" by the claims in the stimulus. Related to MBT/Inf, but with a lower standard of support.

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