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Although it is true that is how the stimulus starts off, it is not the main conclusion of the argument and after further analysis, it appears that "primary, constant..." is extra detail that has no bearing on the argument. Let's identify the main conclusion.

C: An ideal bureaucracy (IB) will have an ever expanding set of regulations.

P: 1) Primary goal of IB is to define and classify problems + set out regulations

2) IB provides appeal procedures for all complaints

premise 3 most directly supports the conclusion:

3) if complaint reveals unanticipated problem --> regulations are expanded to cover the new issue

After reading the third premise and then the conclusion, you should automatically wonder why the regulations would be ever expanding (this is sometimes how I identify gaps in arguments), when based off of the premise set alone, it could also be true that the IB receives a finite number of claims that are all added to the regulations. In order for the regulations to be ever expanding, they must receive an unlimited amount of complaints. This is what answer choice C says.

AC D is a biconditional statement and thus can be written like this

IB can reach primary goal --> regulations are always expanding

Regulations are always expanding --> IB can reach primary goal

Neither of these statements are necessary for the P-C relationship to work. Even if this was added to the argument it still wouldn't touch upon why the regulations continuously expand, which is the gaping hole in the argument.

I hope this helps! Please feel free to ask for clarification.

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There are two conditional statements, each of which have contrapositives so I will write the four statements here.

sc has quorum --> ga will begin at 6

ga does not begin at 6 --> sc does not have quorum

ac has quorum --> ga will begin at 7

ga will not begin at 7 --> ac does not have quorum

we can combine these statements:

if the ga begins at 7 that means it does not begin at 6, and according to the contrapositive:

ga does not begin at 6 ---> sc does not have quorum; therefore, if the ga begins at 7 then sc does not have quorum

also, if ga begins at 6 then it does not begin at 7, and according to the second contrapositive, if the ga does not begin at 7 then ac does not have quorum; therefore, if the ga begins at 6 then ac does not have quorum.

This is what AC E says so E is correct.