PT125.S4.Q9

PrepTest 125 - Section 4 - Question 9

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The Jacksons regularly receive wrong-number calls for Sara, whose phone number was misprinted in a directory. ████ █████████ ███ █████████ █████████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ████ ████ █████ ████ █████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ████ ███ ██ ██ ██████████ ███ ████ ██ ██ ███ █████ ████████ ██ █████ ███ ██ █████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████ ██ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ███ █████ ███████ ██ █████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████ █████ ██████ ███████ ███████

Summary

The author’s argument breaks down into two separate lines of reasoning:

Premise: The Jacksons didn’t lead Sara to think they’d pass along the correct number.

Conclusion: It is not wrong for the Jacksons not to pass along Sara’s number.

Premise: Passing along Sara’s number would have been helpful to Sara and not difficult for the Jacksons to do.

Conclusion: Passing along the Sara’s number would be laudable.

Notable Assumptions

There are two gaps to be closed between the premises and the conclusion:

If you don’t lead someone into thinking you’ll do an action → failure to do the action is not wrong

If an action is helpful to someone and not difficult to do → doing the action is laudable

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9.

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

a

It is always ████████ ██ ██ █████████ ███████ ██ ████████ ███ ███ █████ ██ █████ ██ █████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ██ ███████ ███ █████ ██ ███

b

Being helpful to ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ██ ██ ███ █████ ██ ██ ███

c

If one can ██ █████████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ██ ████████ ███ ███ █████ ██ ██ ███

d

Doing something for ███████ ██ ████████ ████ ██ ██ ██ █████████ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██ ███ ██ ██ █████ ███ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███

e

The only actions ████ ███ ████████ ███ █████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ██ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ██████ ███████ ██ ███ ██ ██ █████████ ██ ██ ███

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