rocko911 wrote:
Bunuel wrote:
Mary has qualified to become a police officer. Has Albert qualified to become a police officer?
(1) If Albert qualifies to become a police officer, then Mary will qualify to become a police officer.
(2) If Albert does not qualify to become a police officer, then Mary will not qualify to become a police officer.
I'm sorry but I don't understand explanation from Both above experts....
Let me tell u why............
Question stem = M is Police AT PRESENT , Has A become Police yet?
1) IF A becomes Police THEN M will(CERTAINLY) (IN FUTURE) be police as well
So ITS CERTAIN THAT M will be Police if A becomes a police
So This certainty shows that M is POLICE which means A is already a POLICE IN PAST2) IF A doesn't become Police , then M will(Certainity) not become Police
SO M is dependent on A ...If A cant do it then M also cant
Hence If M has done it its SURE THAN A has done it already
HOW CAN D not be an answer?
Hi
Please refer to the highlighted part once again. If you are given a universal truth of this type:
If 'Cause', then 'Effect'.
So if a certain cause takes place, then a particular effect will also take place.
But does this above statement also make it mandatory that this particular cause
only will lead to this particular effect? That is not necessary, because this effect could have been due to some other cause too.
Say if we know for certain that:- 'If Government releases memo, Democrats will protest'. Consider for a moment this statement to be
truth.
If memo is released, Demos will protest. But does this statement also mean that 'Democrats will protest
only if Government releases memo'..
Not necessary. Democrats could protest for a number of other reasons too.
So If we are given that memo is released,
we can be sure that Democrats will protest. But if instead we are given that Democrats have protested,
we cannot be sure that memo has been released - Democrats could have protested for some other reason also.
Lets now try to apply same logic in this question - statement 1. If A becomes police, M will become police.
So if we know that A has become police,
we can be sure that M will be police.
But if we know that M has become police,
we cannot be sure that A has also become police; as
A becoming police was not the only condition for M to have become police.