PT144.S2.Q13

PrepTest 144 - Section 2 - Question 13

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Some of the politicians who strongly supported free trade among Canada, the United States, and Mexico are now refusing to support publicly the idea that free trade should be extended to other Latin American countries.

Summary

Some politicians who strongly supported free trade among Canada, the United States, and Mexico now refuse to publicly support the idea that free trade should be extended to other Latin American countries.

Notable Valid Inferences

Not all politicians who supported free trade among Canada, the United States, and Mexico publicly support the idea that free trade should be extended to other Latin American countries.

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13.

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a

Some of the ███████████ ███ ███ ████████ ███████ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ████████ █████████ ███ ███ ███████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████

Could be false. The stimulus is restricted to politicians who do not support extending free trade to other Latin American countries. We do not have any information about politicians who do support this idea.

2%
b

Not all politicians ███ ███ ████████ ███████ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ████████ █████████ ████████ █████████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████

Could be false. The stimulus is restricted to politicians who do not support extending free trade to other Latin American countries. We do not have any information about politicians who do support this idea.

3%
c

Some of the ███████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ████ ███████ █████ ████████ ██ ████ ██████

Could be false. We don’t have any information to infer whether these politicians have changed their position. It is possible that these politicians have never supported the idea of extending free trade to Latin American countries.

3%
d

Not all politicians ███ ████████ █████████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ████████ ██████████

Must be true. “Not all politicians who X do Y” is equivalent to claiming that some politicians who do X do not Y. So (D) asserts that some politicians who opposed free trade among Canada, U.S., and Mexico now do not publicly support extending free trade to other Latin American countries.

86%
e

Some of the ███████████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████ █████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ██████ █████████ ████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ████████ ██████████

Could be false. Refusing to publicly support an idea is not equivalent to publicly opposing an idea.

7%

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