PT134.S2.Q3

PrepTest 134 - Section 2 - Question 3

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Whenever Joe's car is vacuumed, the employees of K & L Auto vacuum it; they are the only people who ever vacuum Joe's car. ██ ███ █████████ ██ █ █ █ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ███ ██ █ █ █ ████ ██ ██ ██████ █████ ███ ███ ████████ █████████ ██████████ ███ ████ ███ ███ ██ █ █ █ ████ ██ ██ ██████

Method of Reasoning

The argument proceeds by triggering a chain of sufficient conditions. If Joe’s car is vacuumed, then K & L employees—and only them—did the vacuuming. If K & L employees do the vacuuming, the Joe’s car was in their shop to be fixed. Since Joe’s car was recently vacuumed, the author implicitly infers that the K & L employees must have done it. From this, the author concludes that Joe’s car must have been taken to the shop to be fixed.

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3.

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a

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b

Lisa went to ███ ████ █████ █████ █████ ██████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ █████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ███ ████ ███ ███ ██ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████████

c

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d

Linda is grumpy ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████████ ███ █████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ██ ███████ ██████████ █████ ████ ███ ██ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ███ ██ ███████

e

Jeff had to ██████ ██████ █ ██████████ ██ ██████ ███ █████████ ████ ████████ █████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ █████████ ████ ████████

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