@Benjamin Kieta If B were to say "None of the studies that suggested that taking melatonin tablets can induce sleep examined people with insomnia" would that make it the right answer?

This was a cool one. One way that made it easier to think was supplementing "In addition.......here's another premise that supports why hard surfaces help with running speed". I guess I interpreted the stem differently from Kevin though lol. I thought it was asking us to select an AC that added support to the argument.

@Calleryj When in doubt, do your best to find the gap at the very least. They mention 'beautiful' and then continuously speak about 'best'. There must be some connection between these two.

Anyone have good time-saving tips? How do you get better at moving faster when it comes to problems like these?

@koje Something I like to remember when negating complex sentences is to start the sentence of with "it is not the case that....". It is not the case that to know the name of something is to know what that thing is. You can know the name of that thing without knowing what it is (A negated). This doesn't have any affect on our argument because the arg is speaking about an instance where it is NOT necessary to know the name.

@Sterling George Rely on context clues or in this case, conjunctive adverbs. The argument supports its conclusion by stating all the bad consequences that follow (everything that is mentioned in the first sentence). So it's reasonable to assume that "furthermore" in the last sentence can only be used to explain yet another negative consequence that likely falls into the same pile as the first ones. I actually didn't even read past "furthermore".

In respect to AC E, who speaks like that? LOL

@hendlers216 I don't think with weaken questions the alternative hypothesis has to be factually correct. As long as it offers another possibility. The people referred to in AC C could be considered to be the same people from city A that went into a close by city B to smoke a cig because city A is suddenly charging too high of a tax lol. In that sense, the other cities mentioned in the correct answer choice could still be relevant.

When it doubt, focus on the subject of the argument. Truthfully I did not understand AC B but I focused on how the argument still vouches for the candidate simply by claiming the belief to be false based on some condition. Regardless of the belief, the candidate can still hold views that are incompatible to public interest if he is subtly coerced into believing the same things as the wealthy sponsor orrrr maybe the candidate's thoughts align with the rich guy right from the start. Either way candidate can't be vouched for and the B gave me that.

@SoniaKulkarni Notice how the stimulus was intentionally vague regarding the scope of this "comparative study" that is uses as evidence to make its claim. I felt like it was best to keep an open mind about how far this study really extends. It could be between ten cultures or like AC C mentions "all" cultures.

@RishikaBajjuri outweigh* lolol 

@Santanna Kochylema I agree. I struck off B because it didn't do much for me after moving the sufficient condition into the premises set. If anything it only emphasized the sufficiency that answer choice banks on rather than actually addressing what we're tasked to do. Answer choice C made the most sense after negating it. I also went in with the thought process that the correct answer choice would enable the benefits (steel plants using thermo gens) to overweight all other costs (purchasing and installing). This one was fairly easy once you identified the benefit language. 

@fl7dqf252 I like to think AC E is wrong because it treats the conform of the cows as a necessary condition to maximize profits, rather than the other way around.

@Jenny_Valentine Well, Ms. H adhered to the conditions to place a temporary halt, which was to request them at least three days prior to the day she wanted the delivery to stop (TS --> 3D prior - PASSED). Our job is to find a situation where the conditions were met by one of the subscribers thereby, destroying the ability for the DG to deny the claim. The delivery happened regardless of her request she made hence, the DG has not basis to deny it. And since they fail at least one of the necessary conditions to deny the claim, it can be safely assumed that they might accommodate Ms. H’s request. The fact of the matter is the failure of the condition itself.

Omg I pre-phrased it as "most students received a B- or higher" and then selected C because I got excited that I found the right answer. I'm currently cry laughing lol

@rowantyler.d I eliminated E because I had thought equating "overlooked" to "ignored" was significantly more aggressive that equating "relations" to "agreement." Overlooked is typically nuanced as unintentionally missing something, or at least colloquially....I guess. I'm still confused lol

I feel like the best way to attack MP questions is to hunt, in order to avoid getting distracted by other plausible ACs. Thoughts??

In a real-time scenario where I didn't have time to closely analyze AC B and didn't anticipate beforehand, I would have most likely picked the wrong answer.

@mahajil522646 If we logically map out the stimulus, we can understand that everyone who participated in the cleanup received a cert (ok "many" people participated. cool). I represent this as SC -> C. Now, since both events happened concurrently the stimulus follows that at least some were inactive in the artists circle. I conjoin this new premise to my logical diagram by representing it as /AC <-S-> SC -> C.

AC A is wrong because we can only be certain about what we know, not what is ambiguous (obviously). We know that some folks who were inactive at the artist circles received certs NOT that some people who were active received certs. Maybe they missed getting the cert? Idk and frankly, idc.

AC B basically reiterates my aforementioned idea that some people who received certs were inactive in the artistic circles.

@rugin.geramifard I'm guessing contrapositives apply to MBT questions or similar stems

@rugin.geramifard It could be based on the question stem? Possibly when you encounter a stem that indicates something of its negation/contradiction.