Self-study
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Summary
The relationship between money and purchases is comparable to the relationship between tools and tasks. Tools are useless if there is no task to be done.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Therefore, money is useless if there is nothing to purchase.
2.
Which one of the following ████ █████████ █████████ ███ █████████
a
money should be ███████ ██ ██ ██ ████ ██████ ████ █ ████
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not make a value judgment regarding how useful money is. Rather, the stimulus is discussing when money is useful.
b
any tool that ███████ ███ ████ ██ ██████████ █ ████ ██ ████████
This answer is unsupported. We don’t know from the stimulus the value of tools, we only know that they're useless without a task. We can't assume that tools are always valuable when there is a task.
c
money is valueless ██ █ █████ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ████
This answer is strongly supported. Since tools are useless if there are no tasks, then similarly money is valueless when there is nothing to purchase.
d
money should be ████████ ██ █ ████ ██████ ████ █ █████████
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus does not make a value judgment regarding how we should or should not think of money. Rather, the stimulus uses an analogy to explain a case where money may not be useful.
e
the value of █████ ███████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ██ ██████████
This answer is unsupported. The stimulus is making an analogy between money and tools to say that money is useless when there's nothing to purchase. That doesn't tell us how to determine the value of money.