PT113.S2.Q12

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PrepTest 113 - Section 2 - Question 12

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Rosen: One cannot prepare a good meal from bad food, produce good food from bad soil, maintain good soil without good farming, or have good farming without a culture that places value on the proper maintenance of all its natural resources so that needed supplies are always available.

Summary

Good meal → NOT bad food

Good food → NOT bad soil

Good soil → Good farming

Good farming → culture that places value on maintaining natural resources

Very Strongly Supported Conclusions

Normally, I wouldn’t think “NOT bad food” implies “good food,” since there might be something that’s just not bad and not good — just middle-of-the-road food. Same thing with “NOT bad soil” and “good soil.”

But, the stimulus seems to be set up in order for us to draw a conditional chain connecting every statement.

Good meal → good food → good soil → good farming → culture that places value on maintining natural resources.

I know this seems inappropriate, but consider this problem unusual, and don’t draw too many lessons from it. Think of this problem as an exception.

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12.

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

The creation of ████ █████ ███████ ██ ████ ███████ ███ ████████ ███████████

Supported, if we accept the conditional chain starting with “good meal” and ending with “culture that maintains natural resources.” A good meal depends on natural conditions, such as soil. And it depends on cultural conditions, such as a culture’s view of natural resources.

Natural resources cannot ██ ██████████ ████████ ███████ ████ ███████ ██████████

We know good farming is necessary for good soil. But there’s no support for the claim that good farming is necessary for maintaining natural resources. There are many other kinds of natural resources besides soil, and we don’t know whether good farming is related to those other resources.

Good soil is █ ████████████ ██ ████ ████████

We know good farming is necessary for good soil. But this doesn’t mean good soil is necessary (prerequisite) for good farming.

Any society with ████ ████████ ██████ ████ ████ █ ████ ████████

We don’t know anything about good “cuisine.” A cuisine is different from a meal. We also don’t know that “good cultural values” is sufficient for anything.

When food is ████ ██ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ████ ████ ███████████ ███ ███████ ██████████

Food might be bad for other reasons besides poor soil and bad farming. We know that good food requires good soil and good farming, but it might also require other things. So we might have good soil and good farming, but still end up with bad food.

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68% of people who answer get this correct

This is a moderately difficult question.

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

25% 131

147

75% 164

Analysis

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Inference

Stems that ask which answer choice can be "properly inferred" from the claims in the stimulus. Near-synonymous with Must Be True, with a slightly lower standard of support.

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Conditional reasoning

Stimuli that feature conditional and set logic (e.g. A → B, A is true, therefore B is true).

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