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In Must Be True questions, we can just treat the stimulus as a big ol' list of rules – 10 commandments style – any one of which could hold the key to the correct answer. The core skills tested in this question are properly translating the biconditional claim (marked with *) and understanding the limits of various quantifiers (I'll bold those terms). Here are the stimulus' claims broken down exhaustively and translated into logic-friendly phrasing:
- Leachate is a solution
- Leachate is sometimes highly contaminated
- Leachate develops when water permeates a landfill site
- If the landfill overfills, leachate escapes*
- If leachate escapes, the landfill has overfilled*
- Most of the time when leachate escapes, we can't predict how much will escape
- We must figure out how to dispose of leachate
- Most landfill leachate goes to sewage plants
- Some sewage plants are not capable of handling highly contaminated water
That's a lot of claims packed into four sentences! With such a broad field of possible right-answer sources, process of elimination is your best bet – run once through the answers noting promising contenders and eliminating any clearly-wrong choices, then cross-reference the remaining answer choices against the stimulus.
Analysis by MichaelWright
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