Q10 - One who has borrowed an item from

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Question Type:
Principle Inference

Stimulus Breakdown:
Borrowed with promise + Not hard to return + No permission to return late → Should return on time

Answer Anticipation:
The correct answer will have to talk about returning the item on time (anything about not returning on time can be automatically eliminated, since there's nothing sufficient to reach that determination).

Correct answer:
(E)

Answer choice analysis:
(A) Out of scope. Early counts as by a certain date, and this answer states that Christopher shouldn't do that.

(B) One condition of our principle is that it not be difficult to do so. Adding "even if doing so is difficult" doesn't align with that, so we can rule this answer choice out.

(C) Val received permission to return the car late, so our conditional doesn't trigger. Eliminate.

(D) This situation doesn't line up with the first condition, since Yesenia never promised to return the item by tomorrow. Eliminate.

(E) Boom goes the dynamite. This answer hits each piece of the trigger and reaches the conclusion from our Principle.

Takeaway/Pattern:
Make sure you have all the conditions in mind when analyzing answers. It's also cool to note that the answers followed a pattern. Each of the three sufficient conditions were missing from one answer, and the fourth wrong answer had the wrong conclusion/necessary condition.

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