PT103.S1.Q13

PrepTest 103 - Section 1 - Question 13

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The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

Notable Valid Inferences

Effective politicians (i.e., politicians who do their jobs properly) are deceitful and not scrupulously honest. The contrapositive of this shows that if you’re scrupulously honest and/or not deceitful, you must not be an effective politician.

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13.

Assuming that the author's statements ███ █████████ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██████████ ██████ ██ █████

a

Some people think ███ ███████████ ███ ███████

b

Some politicians are ████████████ ███████

c

Some people define █ ████████████ ███ ██ ███████ ███ █████ ██ ████████

d

Some deceitful politicians ███ ████████████

e

Some scrupulously honest ███████████ ███ ██████████

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