Self-study
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Distilled List Of Claims
In Must Be True questions, we can just treat the stimulus as a big ol’ list of rules – 10 commandments style – any one of which could hold the key to the correct answer. In this stimulus, translating the claims correctly demands fluency in conditional indicators. Here’s a distilled list of those claims:
From the stem: Negotiations will begin soon
If negotiations don’t begin soon … [blah blah no one cares]*There are three prerequisites for negotiations to be held:
Pressure from other countries International troops demonstrate their ability to enforce Suppress a major incentive to keep fighting
Agreement requires continuing pressure from other countries
*Because the stem tells us negotiations will be held soon, this rule about what happens if negotiations are not held soon is moot.
The major inference we can draw from these claims is this:
Since the negotiations will indeed begin soon, the three prerequisites must have been fulfilled.
Analysis by MichaelWright
25.
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a
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b
International troops enforcing ███ ██████████ ████ ████████████ ████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████████ ████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ██████
c
A major incentive ███ ███ ███ █████ ██ ██████ ███████████ ███ ████ ███████████
d
Other countries have ███████ ████████ ██ ███ ███ █████ ██ ███ ████████
e
The negotiations’ reaching ██ █████████ ███████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █████ ██████████