seekmba wrote:
Hey dwivedys, do you mind explaining little bit more in detail. I did not quite understand your explanation for E.
hmmm...
Let us look at choice E:
Quote:
(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.
Choice E is discussing people in the United States. What did the passage tell us about Americans? Two things:
1) They regard
both big and small businesses as providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.
2) Most people
[b]consistently [/b]perceive small business as a force for good in society (
whereas big business is considered socially responsible
only under certain conditions--namely, times of prosperity).
If both of these facts are true, then it must be true that:
Quote:
(E) Many people in the United States regard the social responsibility of big business as extending beyond providing consumers with fairly priced goods and services.
If choice E were not true--if people in the US thought social responsibility has to do with ONLY provision of fairly priced goods and services--then, they wouldn't be able to think that small business is more consistently socially responsible than big business (because they both provide fairly priced goods and services). That is: if choice E were false, then either fact 1 or fact 2 would be false--a part of the passage would become falsified. But in inference questions, we must treat the entire passage as necessarily true. Thus, chioce E must be true.
TAKEAWAY:
We can use the denial test in inference questions to prove that a choice is correct (must be true) or that a choice is incorrect (could be false).