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Support Most of the members of Bargaining Unit Number 17 of the government employees' union are computer programmers. ████ ██ ██ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██████████ █████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ████████ ███ ████████ ████████████ █████ ████████
Summary
The author concludes that some gov. employees in the Hanson Building are computer programmers. Why?
Because most members of BU Number 17 of the gov. employees’ union are computer programmers.
Missing Connection
The conclusion introduces a new concept — working in the Hanson Building. Since the premise doesn’t say anything about working in the Hanson Building, we know the correct answer, at a minimum, must say something about at least some people working in the Hanson Building.
To go further, we want to connect what we know about BU Number 17 to the conclusion. We know that most BU Number 17 members (all of whom are gov. employees) are computer programmers. If we can show that most or all BU Number 17 members work in the Hanson Building, then that guarantees at least some computer programmers work in the Hanson Building. (This is because at least some BU Number 17 members would be computer programmers in the Hanson Building).
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(A) tells us that most BU 17 members who aren’t programmers work in the Hanson Building. But we’re trying to place some of the ones who ARE programmers in the Hanson Building.
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We don’t know whether the executive comittee of BU 17 are programmers. So (B) doesn’t guarantee that some of the programmers in BU 17 work in the Hanson Building.
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This reverses what would have been correct. We want to know that most of BU 17 works in the Hanson Building. But (C) says most who work in the Hanson Building work in BU 17. That doesn’t make the argument valid, because it doesn’t guarantee that some of the programmers in BU 17 are among the people who work in the Hanson building.
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The premise tells us most of BU 17 are computer programmers. If, as (D) says, most of BU 17 work in the Hanson Building, then there must be at least 1 member of BU 17 is both a programmer and works in the Hanson Building.
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(E) doesn’t guarantee that some of the BU 17 programmers work in the Hanson Building.