PT149.S1.Q6

PrepTest 149 - Section 1 - Question 6

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Support The only vehicles that have high resale values are those that are well maintained. ████ ███ ███████████████ ███████ ███ █ ████ ██████ ██████

Method of Reasoning

The argument gives a conditional statement as premise (if a vehicle has high resale value, then it is well maintained) to conclude that the reverse is also true (if a vehicle is well maintained, then it has high resale value).

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is the cookie-cutter flaw of confusing sufficient and necessary conditions. In the conclusion, the author tries to treat the necessary condition from the premise (well maintained) as sufficient, but this is invalid logic.

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6.

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a

since none of ███ ██████ ██ ████ ██████ ████ ████ ██████ ███████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ █████ ███████

b

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c

since only those ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ████████ ██████ ███████████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ ███ ████ █████████ ██████ ████████ ██ ███████████ ███ ████ ██████ ██ █████████

d

since all city ████████ ██████ ██████████ ██ ███████ █████ ██████ ███ ███████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ █ ████ ███████

e

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