- Wed Jan 21, 2015 12:00 am
#35404
Complete Question Explanation
Parallel Flaw. The correct answer choice is (D)
The stimulus features conditional reasoning. Since no one who works at Leila’s has received both a poor performance evaluation and a raise, the conditional relationship in the first sentence can be diagrammed as follows:
Answer choice (A): This answer choice is incorrect because the argument in it is valid:
Answer choice (E): This answer choice is virtually identical to incorrect answer choice (C):
Parallel Flaw. The correct answer choice is (D)
The stimulus features conditional reasoning. Since no one who works at Leila’s has received both a poor performance evaluation and a raise, the conditional relationship in the first sentence can be diagrammed as follows:
- Poor Evaluation Raise
Raise Poor Evaluation
- Poor Evaluation Raise
- RaiseLester
- Conclusion: RaiseLester Poor Evaluation
Answer choice (A): This answer choice is incorrect because the argument in it is valid:
- Premise: Own Pay Rent
Conclusion: Pay RentNeighbors OwnNeighbors
- Premise: Own Pay Rent
Conclusion: OwnNeighbors Pay RentNeighbors
- Premise: Rent Own
Conclusion: RentNeighbors OwnNeighbors
- Premise: Own Pay Rent
Conclusion: OwnNeighbors Pay RentNeighbors
Answer choice (E): This answer choice is virtually identical to incorrect answer choice (C):
- Premise: Own Rent
Conclusion: OwnNeighbors RentNeighbors