PTA.S1.Q24 - The shoe factory in Centerville...

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edited February 2023 in Logical Reasoning 22 karma

Question Stem: Sufficient Assumption

Stimulus: Shoe factory employs more unskilled full time workers (W) than all other businesses in town combined.
If shoe factory closes, more than half of town RESIDENTS who are W will lose jobs.

See the shift between the W that are employed at the factory in the premise, and RESIDENTS in the conclusion? Look for an idea connecting these 2 ideas: workers at the factory and residency.
A. residency, no workers
B. workers, no residency
C. workers, no residency
D. everyone employed at the factory is a resident.
E. neither

D works because without it, we have no idea where the workers come from - what if they all live OUTSIDE Centerville? Then there is no way the conclusion is true. So D closes this one gap.

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