PT122.S4.Q24

PrepTest 122 - Section 4 - Question 24

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Support Most of the employees of the Compujack Corporation are computer programmers. █████ ████ ████████ ███████████ ███████ █████████ ████████ ████ █████ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ █████████ ████████ ████ ███████ ██ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████████

Method of Reasoning

The argument presents a “most” statement (most employees of Compujack Corporation are computer programmers), connects it to another “most” statement (most computer programmers receive excellent salaries from their employers), and then draws a “some” statement as a conclusion (at least one Compujack employee must receive an excellent salary from Compujack).

Identify and Describe Flaw

This argument is flawed because it employs an invalid argument form. A “most” statement linked to another “most” statement does not allow you to draw a “some” statement from the first link to the last link (as shown in the diagram above). Just because most employees of Compujack Corporation are computer programmers and most computer programmers receive excellent salaries from their employers, that doesn’t necessarily mean that any Compujack employee receives an excellent salary from Compujack.

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24.

Which one of the following █████████ ████████ █ ██████ ███████ ██ █████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ ███████ ██ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████

a

Most gardeners are ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████████ ████ ██ █ ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████

b

Most of Molly's ██████████ ███ ██████████ █████ ████ █████████ ███ ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████ ██ ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████

c

Most gardeners are ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██ █ ████████ ████ ██ █ ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████

d

Most gardeners are ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ █ ██████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████

e

Most of Molly's ██████████ ███ █████████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ █████████ ██ ███████ ████ ██ █ ████████ ████ █ █████ ████ ██ █████████

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