PT123.S3.Q22 > Explanation

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This could be false. Decrease in overall profitability is a necessary condition of the price increase of coffee beans. (A) confuses the necessary and sufficient conditions.

Could be false. This confuses sufficiency with necessity. Selling non-coffee products and decreasing coffee sales are both sufficient conditions of a decrease in overall profitability—they’re not necessary.

Must be true. Chaining the conditional claims in the stimulus reveals that if the price paid for beans increases, overall profitability must decrease.

This could be false. (D) can be translated to say “decrease in price of coffee beans→ decrease in overall profitability.” The stimulus says that if the price of coffee beans increases, then there will be a decrease in overall profitability, which is not what (D) says.

This could be false. (E) can be translated to say “/increase in price of beans→increase in coffee sales.” This is not an inference that can be drawn from the conditional chain.

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