PT147.S1.Q11

PrepTest 147 - Section 1 - Question 11

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Speaker 1 Summary

Nick claims that the university should not grant a contract to the competitor of the Pincus family. This is because the Pincuses are long-time supporters of the university, which supports the sub-conclusion that awarding the contract to their competitor would be disloyal to one of the university’s friends. Nick is also assuming that the university should not be disloyal to its friends.

Speaker 2 Summary

Pedro states that the contract should go to whichever company makes the best bid. Why not consider the Pincuses’ donation history? Because for a donation to be charitable, it can’t come with special privileges—so, the past donations do not warrant special consideration.

Objective

We need to find a disagreement between Nick and Pedro. Their disagreement is about whether the university should consider the Pincus family’s past support when awarding contracts.

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11.

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a

loyalty should sometimes ██ █ █████████████ ██ ██████ ████████ █████████

b

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c

the acceptance of █████████ ██████ █ ██████████ █████ █ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███ █████

d

the university should ██ ████ ████████ ██ ██████ ████ █ ████ ███████ ██ █████████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ██████

e

the Pincus family's ████████████ ███████ ███ ███ ████ ███ ████ ███████████ ███

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