PT11.S2.Q24

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PrepTest 11 - Section 2 - Question 24

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Since Support Mayor Drabble always repays her political debts as soon as possible, Conclusion she will almost certainly appoint Lee to be the new head of the arts commission. ███ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ███ █ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ████ ███ █ ███ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████████

Analysis

Here's the argument distilled:

P1: Drabble repays her political debts ASAP.
P2: She has a big political debt to Lee.
P3: Appointing Lee to the commission is one way to repay that debt (ish).
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Con: Drabble will (probs) appoint Lee to the commission.

We can view both of this argument's core assumptions through the relative v. absolute lens – appointing Lee to the arts commission might be a good (absolute) option, but that doesn't mean it's the best (relative) option.

Lee v. other people: Lee's claim to the job might be strong in absolute terms but not the strongest – someone else could outrank him.

This appointment v. other repayment options: this appointment might be a good way to repay Lee in absolute terms but not the best – another method could be better (or even equally good).

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Mayor Drabble has ██ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ███ ████ ██ ███ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████ ██ ██ ███████████ ██ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████

This eliminates a potential scenario in which someone has a better claim to the job than Lee (even though Lee's claim is good). If Drabble has an older debt to someone who also wants the appointment, her "repay debts ASAP" policy would give her reason to appoint that other person instead of Lee.

"Could as suitably be repaid" helps guard against the "but what if it's a smaller debt than Lee's?" objection to (A).

There is no ███ ██ ████ █████ ███████ ████ █ ███████ █████████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ████

Greater debts are fine if they're owed to people who aren't interested in the arts commission job.

Lee is the ████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ███████ ████ █ █████████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███████████

It's okay if there are other people who'd be willing to accept the appointment as long as Drabble's debts to them are smaller or more recent than her debt to Lee. Given that Lee's debt is for "the last election," smaller is the more relevant consideration here. (She owes Lee "a lot.")

Whether Lee is █████████ ██ ████ ███ ████ ██████████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████ ███████████ █████████

Irrelevant is an overstrong word – Drabble's decision could still be partly informed by Lee's qualifications. Replace "is irrelevant to" with "will not be the sole determining factor in" and we're getting somewhere.

The only way ████ █████ ███████ ███ ██████████ █████ ███ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ██ ██ ██████████ ███ ██ ████ ███ ████ ███████████

"The only" is an overstrong phrase. It's okay if there's another way for Drabble to repay Lee, as long as that way is slower.

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51% of people who answer get this correct

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