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Carl’s Coffee Emporium stocks only two decaffeinated coffees: French Roast and Mocha Java. Yusef only serves decaffeinated coffee and the coffee he served after dinner last night was far too smooth and mellow to have been French Roast. So, if Yusef still gets all his coffee from Carl’s, what he served last night was Mocha Java.
The argument above is most similar in its logical structure to which one of the following?
(A) Samuel wants to take three friends to the beach. His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible. The convertible holds four people so, although the sedan has a more powerful engine, if Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother, he will borrow the convertible.
(B) If Anna wants to walk from her house to the office where she works, she must either go through the park or take the overpass across the railroad tracks. The park paths are muddy and Anna does not like using the overpass so she never walks to work.
(C) Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation. The trail she had planned to hike requires three weeks to complete but is closed by October, so if Rose takes a vacation it will not be the one she had planned.
(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
(E) If Teresa does not fire her assistant, her staff will rebel and her department’s efficiency will decline. Losing her assistant would also reduce its efficiency, so, if no alternative solution can be found, Theresa’s department will become less efficient.
The argument above is most similar in its logical structure to which one of the following?
(A) Samuel wants to take three friends to the beach. His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible. The convertible holds four people so, although the sedan has a more powerful engine, if Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother, he will borrow the convertible.
(B) If Anna wants to walk from her house to the office where she works, she must either go through the park or take the overpass across the railroad tracks. The park paths are muddy and Anna does not like using the overpass so she never walks to work.
(C) Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation. The trail she had planned to hike requires three weeks to complete but is closed by October, so if Rose takes a vacation it will not be the one she had planned.
(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
(E) If Teresa does not fire her assistant, her staff will rebel and her department’s efficiency will decline. Losing her assistant would also reduce its efficiency, so, if no alternative solution can be found, Theresa’s department will become less efficient.
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Carl’s Coffee Emporium stocks only two decaffeinated coffees: French Roast and Mocha Java. Yusef only serves decaffeinated coffee and the coffee he served after dinner last night was smooth and mellow have been French Roast. So, if Yusef still gets all his coffee from Carl’s, what he served last night was Mocha Java.
The argument above is most similar in its logical structure to which one of the following?
(A) Samuel wants to take three friends to the beach. His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible. The convertible holds four people so, although the sedan has a more powerful engine, if Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother, he will borrow the convertible.
(B) If Anna wants to walk from her house to the office where she works, she must either go through the park or take the overpass across the railroad tracks. The park paths are muddy and Anna does not like using the overpass so she never walks to work.
(C) Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation. The trail she had planned to hike requires three weeks to complete but is closed by October, so if Rose takes a vacation it will not be the one she had planned.
(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
(E) If Teresa does not fire her assistant, her staff will rebel and her department’s efficiency will decline. Losing her assistant would also reduce its efficiency, so, if no alternative solution can be found, Theresa’s department will become less efficient.
The argument above is most similar in its logical structure to which one of the following?
(A) Samuel wants to take three friends to the beach. His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible. The convertible holds four people so, although the sedan has a more powerful engine, if Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother, he will borrow the convertible.
(B) If Anna wants to walk from her house to the office where she works, she must either go through the park or take the overpass across the railroad tracks. The park paths are muddy and Anna does not like using the overpass so she never walks to work.
(C) Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation. The trail she had planned to hike requires three weeks to complete but is closed by October, so if Rose takes a vacation it will not be the one she had planned.
(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
(E) If Teresa does not fire her assistant, her staff will rebel and her department’s efficiency will decline. Losing her assistant would also reduce its efficiency, so, if no alternative solution can be found, Theresa’s department will become less efficient.
Lets simply the argument:
Carl has only decaffeinated coffee French roast and Mocha Java. French roast is NOT so smooth and Mellow, well as Mocha Java is smoother,Yusuf sells only decaffeinated coffee and if he got his coffee from Carl that was quite smooth then he must have got Mocha Java
Passage is something like this.
1) So we have two options F and M ,
2) each has a certain characteristic F is NOT smooth and M is smooth,
3) a person must choose one,
4) based on the characteristic of the chosen, we must be able to tell , which option was selected.
options:
(A) Samuel wants to take three friends to the beach. His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible. The convertible holds four people so, although the sedan has a more powerful engine, if Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother, he will borrow the convertible.
We have the two options :His mother owns both a sedan and a convertible
We have the characteristics of each options:The convertible holds four,sedan has a more powerful engine
We have,a person must choose one :Samuel borrows a vehicle from his mother
Based on the characteristic of the chosen, we must be able to tell , which option was selected : WE DO NOT have this. We do not have the characteristic of the of the vehicle to identify the Vehicle.
Because point 4 is absent this option is NOT similar to the argument. INCORRECT.
(B) If Anna wants to walk from her house to the office where she works, she must either go through the park or take the overpass across the railroad tracks. The park paths are muddy and Anna does not like using the overpass so she never walks to work.
We have the two options : she must either go through the park or take the overpass
characteristics of each options:park paths are muddy , well as overpass ...??? we do NOT have the characteristic of the second option. We can stop right here, because this is certainly not similar to the argument.
a person must choose one: NO choice is made. Absent.
based on the characteristic of the chosen, we must be able to tell , which option was selected : absent
Because points 2, 3 and 4 are absent this option is NOT similar to the argument. INCORRECT.
(C) Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation. The trail she had planned to hike requires three weeks to complete but is closed by October, so if Rose takes a vacation it will not be the one she had planned.
We have the two options:Rose can either take a two-week vacation in July or wait until October and take a three-week vacation.
each has a certain characteristic : absent.
a person must choose one : absent
based on the characteristic of the chosen, we must be able to tell , which option was selected : absent
Because points 2, 3 and 4 are absent this option is NOT similar to the argument. INCORRECT.
(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
1) we have the two options F and M : job in sales and a job in research.
2) we have, each has a certain characteristic : sales job - dislike , research job- likes.
3) a person must choose one : He chooses the job.
4) based on the characteristic of the chosen, we must be able to tell , which option was selected : Since he chose the one he liked, the job was- research. MOST SIMILAR to the argument.Best option. CORRECT.
(E) If Teresa does not fire her assistant, her staff will rebel and her department’s efficiency will decline. Losing her assistant would also reduce its efficiency, so, if no alternative solution can be found, Theresa’s department will become less efficient.Clearly not the Kind of argument as given. We do not have two clear choices NOR other features. INCORRECT.
Ans- D
Hope it's clear.
P.S. I still feel the source could be missing some text in the highlighted part or have it better framed.
22 Apr 2020, 20:18
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(D) Werdix, Inc. has offered Arno a choice between a job in sales and a job in research. Arno would like to work at Werdix but he would never take a job in sales when another job is available, so if he accepts one of these jobs it will be the one in research.
Sounds like a correct answer tbh
Sounds like a correct answer tbh
