PT148.S3.Q24

PrepTest 148 - Section 3 - Question 24

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Library preservationist: Due to the continual physical deterioration of the medieval manuscripts in our library's collection, we have decided to restore most of our medieval manuscripts that are of widely acknowledged cultural significance, though this means that some medieval manuscripts whose authenticity is suspect will be restored. ████████ ████ ███████████ █████ ██████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ███████ ████ ██ █████████ ███ ███████████ ████ ███ ███ ██████████ █████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ███ ██ █████████

Summary

Most of our medieval manuscripts that are of widely acknowledged cultural significance will be restored, and some medieval manuscripts whose authenticity is suspect will be restored. If a manuscript is restored, then its safety can be ensured during restoration. If a manuscript is restored, then it must be one that is frequently consulted.

Notable Valid Inferences

Some medieval manuscripts whose authenticity is suspect are frequently consulted by researchers.

Some medieval manuscripts whose authenticity is suspect can have their safety ensured during restoration.

Most medieval manuscripts that are of widely acknowledged cultural significance are frequently consulted by researchers.
Most medieval manuscripts that are of widely acknowledged cultural significance can have their safety ensured during restoration.

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24.

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a

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Must be true. As shown below, we can combine the statements that some manuscripts whose authenticity is suspect will be restored and that only frequently consulted manuscripts will be restored.

66%
b

All of the ████████ ███████████ ██████ ████████████ ██ ██ ██ ████████ ████████████ ███ ███████████ █████ ██████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ████████

Could be false. The stimulus tells us that most manuscripts widely acknowledged to be of cultural significance will be restored. This allows us to infer that most of these manuscripts can have their safety ensured. But we don't know about all manuscripts widely acknowledged to be of cultural significance.

6%
c

All of the ████████ ███████████ █████ ██████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████ ███ ███████████ ███████ ███ ██████████ █████████ ██ ████████████

Could be false. As shown on our diagram, there are no necessary conditions attached to the condition of a manuscript’s safety being ensured. It is possible that some manuscripts exist whose safety can be ensured but are not frequently consulted. Although we know that there must be some manuscripts whose safety can be ensured that are frequently consulted by researchers, we don't know about all.

12%
d

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Could be false. The stimulus does not give us any information regarding what manuscripts are most susceptible to deterioration.

7%
e

None of the ████████ ███████████ ████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███████████ ██ ██████ ████████████ ██ ██ ██ ████████ █████████████

Could be false. Although we know that if a manuscript is rarely consulted, it won't be restored, it's still possible that a manuscript that is not restored is still of widely acknowledged cultural significance.

9%

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