- Thu Jul 14, 2016 6:37 pm
#27207
Complete Question Explanation
Parallel Reasoning. The correct answer choice is (D)
This conditional reasoning stimulus presents a scenario two possible options, each with its own necessary outcome: if there is an election you can either vote (giving you satisfaction of knowing that you influenced the election results) or not vote (giving you no right to complain about the outcome). The conclusion, that an election will lead to one outcome or the other, is valid; the argumentation can be diagrammed as follows:
Incorrect answer choice (A) looks like a contender at first, but the conclusion rules this choice out. If the conclusion were that renting a car leads to one of the two referenced outcomes, this answer would be a winner. Instead, the conclusion is that you will be better off in one case (being insured) than in the other (being uninsured).
Incorrect answer choice (B) goes clearly off track in the 5th line (though your muscles…).
Answer choice (C) goes awry at the beginning of the second sentence. If this answer choice were to parallel the stimulus, its first sentence would be followed with a necessary condition if the courses are found stimulating, and a different necessary outcome if the courses were not found stimulating.
The beginning of answer choice (E), like that of incorrect answer choice (A) above, makes choice (E) look at first like a contender: when natural resources are used, this is done either efficiently (leading to longer lasting resources), or inefficiently (leading to quicker depletion). This portion appears to roughly parallel the stimulus, diagrammed as follows:
Parallel Reasoning. The correct answer choice is (D)
This conditional reasoning stimulus presents a scenario two possible options, each with its own necessary outcome: if there is an election you can either vote (giving you satisfaction of knowing that you influenced the election results) or not vote (giving you no right to complain about the outcome). The conclusion, that an election will lead to one outcome or the other, is valid; the argumentation can be diagrammed as follows:
Vote
satisfaction
Electionor
Not Vote
no right to complain
Messages easily readable
password protected
Use computeror
Messages not easily readable
electronically encrypted
Incorrect answer choice (A) looks like a contender at first, but the conclusion rules this choice out. If the conclusion were that renting a car leads to one of the two referenced outcomes, this answer would be a winner. Instead, the conclusion is that you will be better off in one case (being insured) than in the other (being uninsured).
Incorrect answer choice (B) goes clearly off track in the 5th line (though your muscles…).
Answer choice (C) goes awry at the beginning of the second sentence. If this answer choice were to parallel the stimulus, its first sentence would be followed with a necessary condition if the courses are found stimulating, and a different necessary outcome if the courses were not found stimulating.
The beginning of answer choice (E), like that of incorrect answer choice (A) above, makes choice (E) look at first like a contender: when natural resources are used, this is done either efficiently (leading to longer lasting resources), or inefficiently (leading to quicker depletion). This portion appears to roughly parallel the stimulus, diagrammed as follows:
Efficiently
longer lasting resources
Natural resources usedor
Inefficiently
quicker depletion