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- Mon Dec 16, 2024 3:33 pm
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Hi Jeff,
Thank you for your response. I wrestled with this one and upon re-reading the other discussions (as per your recommendation) in addition to your input, I find that the only way that answer choice D makes sense to me is via the negation test. I copied the first three columns in the answer explanation table and then made a third hypothetical column. In this column I increased country A's year 1990 GDP to 106K and lowered the EEC's year 1990 GDP to 98K, a figure more than 1,000 less than the year 1980 EEC's GDP of 100K. This would result in a difference (aka spread), between country A's 1990 GDP and the EEC's 1990 GDP, of 8K which directly violates the spread we should have: 6K (see premise two of the stimulus). Bottom line: The negation test, when applied to answer choice D, places a monkeywrench in the smooth machinery of the overall argument.
Thanks again for lending assistance as this is certainly a very challenging question.
Jonathan
Thank you for your response. I wrestled with this one and upon re-reading the other discussions (as per your recommendation) in addition to your input, I find that the only way that answer choice D makes sense to me is via the negation test. I copied the first three columns in the answer explanation table and then made a third hypothetical column. In this column I increased country A's year 1990 GDP to 106K and lowered the EEC's year 1990 GDP to 98K, a figure more than 1,000 less than the year 1980 EEC's GDP of 100K. This would result in a difference (aka spread), between country A's 1990 GDP and the EEC's 1990 GDP, of 8K which directly violates the spread we should have: 6K (see premise two of the stimulus). Bottom line: The negation test, when applied to answer choice D, places a monkeywrench in the smooth machinery of the overall argument.
Thanks again for lending assistance as this is certainly a very challenging question.
Jonathan