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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. Here are formal logic translations of the claims, with links to their English anchor points in the stimulus:
50s → Rehab 50s ←some→ Faulty Rehab ←some→ /Suspension Faulty → /Suspension
If you’re super-dee-duperly attuned to the valid argument forms, you might proactively anticipate two “some before all” inferences that can be drawn from these claims:
- Some faulty bridges need rehab. (Faulty ←some→ 50s → Rehab)
- Some 50s bridges aren’t suspension. (50s ←some→ Faulty → /Suspension)
Figuring those out in advance is nice if you’re locked in and you can work them out quickly and with high confidence. Relying on process of elimination is totally fine, though. I personally tend to anticipate and diagram a lot and even I relied on PoE here.
Analysis by MichaelWright
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