PT101.S3.Q19

PrepTest 101 - Section 3 - Question 19

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Support Every student who walks to school goes home for lunch. ██ ███████ ████ ████ ████████ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████

Argument Summary

We have one premise: every student who walks to school goes home for lunch.

walks to school → home for lunch

From this, the author concludes that some students who have part-time jobs do not walk to school.

part-time job ←some→ NOT walk to school

The premise says nothing about part-time jobs. The conclusion introduces "part-time jobs" out of nowhere and links it to not walking to school. So the correct answer must connect part-time jobs to something already in the premise.

Bridge the Gap

The contrapositive of the premise would allow us to prove that someone does NOT walk to school:

NOT home for lunch → NOT walk to school

The conclusion says: part-time job ←some→ NOT walk to school

If we could establish that some students with part-time jobs don't go home for lunch, then, based on the contrapositive of the premise, we'd know that those students don't walk to school.

So the bridge we want is:

part-time job ←some→ NOT home for lunch

In plain English: some students with part-time jobs don't go home for lunch.

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19.

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a

Some students who ██ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ██████

b

Every student who ████ ████ ███ █████ ███ █ █████████ ████

c

Some students who ██ ███ ████ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ██ ████ ███ ██████

d

Some students who ██ ███ ██ ████ ███ █████ ████ █████████ █████

e

Every student who ████ ████ ███ █████ █████ ██ ███████

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