Hey All,

For your interest, I just gave an explanation of this question type in another post: cr-shy-adolescents-90490.html.

More or less, this is an assumption question that fits into the category "Logic Gap", in which a syllogism is missing one of its pieces (see the link above if you don't understand what that means).

When you see this pattern appear, really make an effort to predict the answer (the correct answer will always match your prediction; there isn't a lot of room to maneuver in logic gap questions).

Conclusion: People who trust others are confident
Premise: People who believe others trust them are confident
Assumption: People who believe others trust them also trust others

We can see this assumption coming as clearly as if the argument looked like this:

Conclusion: Whatever is behind that door is awesome.
Premise: Talking monkeys are awesome.

Obviously, the assumption would be: there are talking monkeys behind that door.

Hope that helps!

-t
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anc C.

look at the final statement "since this is precisely how people who are confident in their own abilities regard such tasks." u hv to find relation bet'n "people who are confident in their own abilities" and "think of a difficult task as a challenge rather than a threat" for the arg to follow logically. so the last part of the prev 2 statements are connected,so u hv to connect the first part of the two prev statements : "People who do not believe that others distrust them " and "people who tend to trust others ". this is done only in option C , in reverse order.

its very simple !!!

I did it in just a min and 1o sec.
It helps to scribble when things gets clouded in CR.

Here an example:


(A) People who believe that others distrust them tend to trust others.
Ok..look at figure.. some [color=#BF0040]don't trust I...but I trust some.. can't produce in diagram..NO!.[/color]

(B) Confidence in one’s own abilities gives one confidence in the trustworthiness of others.
This is reverse of upper diagram. But, the flow is one-sided.can't conclude...NO!.

(C) People who tend to trust others do not believe that others distrust them.
Diagram says.."I trust others and others trust me". Thats wat given here(People who trust others, believe others trust them) and thats my answer. I wont go any further!

(D) People who are not threatened by difficult tasks tend to find such tasks challenging.
(E) People tend to distrust those who they believe lack self-confidence.

Hope, it helps!
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It is always better to simplify what the argument is trying to say.

1st sentence - Don't believe that others distrust them --> Confident in their own abilities
2nd sentence - trust others --> view difficult tasks as a challenge (note that this is the main conclusion of the argument. Also, note the conclusion indicator 'so').
3rd sentence - confident in their abilities --> view difficult tasks as a challenge (note that this is a premise. note the premise indicator 'since').

We can combine the 1st sentence and the 3rd sentence to yield the premise -

Don't believe that others distrust them --> confident in their abilities --> view difficult tasks as a challenge.

The conclusion is -

tend to trust others --> view difficult tasks as a challenge.

Assumption is something that ties the premise to the conclusion. We have to find the link between the LHS ("trust others") to RHS ("view difficult tasks as a challenge").

One way to do this is to tie "trust others" to " don't believe that others distrust them" so that the conclusion naturally follows from the link.
Which answer option states this? Option C.

A - we are concerned with people who don't believe that others distrust them not the other way round.
B - states 'confidence in their own abilities --> confidence in trustworthiness of others' - this links the 2nd statement in the premise to the first statement in the conclusion. Incorrect. We need something that links the LHS to RHS in the conclusion statement.
C - correct answer.
D - the conclusion is this - "people who trust others view difficult tasks as a challenge rather than a threat" - this does not mean that all people who are not threatened by difficult tasks view them as challenge. Also, a restatement of the conclusion is not an assumption.
E - we are concerned with people who don't believe that others distrust them. We are not concerned with all people.
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