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Any driver involved in an accident leading to personal injury or property damage exceeding $500 is legally required to report the accident to the department of motor vehicles, unless the driver is incapable of doing so. ███ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █ ███████
Summary
If an accident led to personal injury and the driver can report the accident, then the driver is required to report the accident.
If an accident led to over $500 of property damage and the driver can report the accident, then the driver is required to report the accident.
Ted is not required to report his accident.
Very Strongly Supported Conclusions
If Ted is capable of reporting his accident, then the accident didn’t lead to personal injury and it didn’t lead to over $500 of damage.
If the accident led to personal injury or to over $500 of damage, then Ted is incapable of reporting it.
24.
Which one of the following ███ ██ ████████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████████ ██████
a
If Ted is █████████ ██ █████████ ███ █████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ██████ █████████ █████
Unsupported. Like (D), we don’t know what happened if Ted is incapable of reporting the accident; he wouldn’t be required to report it anyway. We only know that if he is capable of reporting it, then it didn’t lead to personal injury and it didn’t lead to over $500 of damage.
b
If Ted's car ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ██ █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████
Very strongly supported. If the accident caused over $500 of property damage and Ted is capable of reporting it, then he’s required to report it. But Ted is not required to report it. So, if it caused over $500 of damage, Ted must be incapable of reporting the accident.
c
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Unsupported. Just because Ted isn’t required to report the accident doesn’t mean that someone else is. It’s possible that no one needs to report it.
d
If Ted is █████████ ██ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ███ █████████
Unsupported. Like (A), we don’t know what happened if Ted is incapable of reporting the accident; he wouldn’t be required to report it anyway. We only know that if he is capable of reporting it, then it didn’t lead to personal injury and it didn’t lead to over $500 of damage.
e
Either no one ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ████████ ██████ █████████ █████
Unsupported. It’s possible that the accident did cause personally injury and over $500 of property damage but Ted isn’t required to report it because he’s incapable of reporting it.