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The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:

If cost of living in the downtown area decreases, the profits of downtown businesses will increase.

If cost of living in the downtown area decreases, traffic congestion will decrease.

If more consumers live in the downtown area, traffic congestion will decrease.

Could be false. “Congestion decrease” is not a sufficient condition for “consumers increase”, so there’s no reason to believe that a congestion decrease would cause an increase in the number of consumers in the area. Maybe people like sitting in traffic!

Must be true. As shown below, by chaining the conditional claims, we see that “cost of living decreases” is a sufficient condition of “profits increase.”

Could be false. “Congestion decrease” is not a sufficient condition for “cost of living increase”, so there’s no reason to believe that a congestion decrease would cause an increase in the cost of living in the area.

Could be false. “Congestion decrease” is not a sufficient condition for “cost of living decrease”, so there’s no reason to believe that a congestion decrease would cause a decrease in the cost of living in the area.

Could be false. “Profits increase” is not a sufficient condition for “more consumers”, so there’s no reason to believe that a profit increase would cause an increase in the number of consumers living in the area.

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