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Many companies require drug tests for their employees as a condition of employment. An inconclusive result does not imply that the employee has used illegal drugs, but merely that the test was not able to determine if such drugs were present. This is one of the reasons such testing is regulated by many states.
Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn from the information above?
(A) Most employees with inconclusive drug test results have actually used illegal drugs.
(B) Companies should not be allowed to drug test employees.
(C) Inconclusive drug test results may lead to inequitable employment decisions against an employee.
(D) A drug test indicating that an employee has not used drugs might be mistaken.
(E) Some states have banned the practice of testing employees for drugs.
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(A) Most employees with inconclusive drug test results have actually used illegal drugs.- can't say it is right. no information is provided in the argument.
reject(B) Companies should not be allowed to drug test employees.- we can't say whether it should be allowed or not based on the above argument. it doesn't support nor reject the testing practice. ambiguous.
reject(C) Inconclusive drug test results may lead to inequitable employment decisions against an employee.- may be true. hold.
(D) A drug test indicating that an employee has not used drugs might be mistaken.- no information is provided. information on inconclusive drug test results is given but not the reverse.
reject(E) Some states have banned the practice of testing employees for drugs.- irrelevant.
rejectform the above options, we can unambiguously reject options A, B, D & E. Hence
C is our answer.