Q25 - Salesperson: If your vacuuming needs are limited to

[ohthatpatrick]

Question Type:
Strengthen ("most supported conclusion", although it will probably feel more like Sufficient Assumption)

Stimulus Breakdown:
Conclusion: If you just need your vacuum to clean small, uncarpeted areas, a cheap handheld is good enough.
Evidence: Most cheap handhelds are easy to use and are good to go on wood and tile floors.

Answer Anticipation:
Where is there still daylight between the Evidence and the Conclusion?

My first thought was, "cool, it's good on wood and tile … but what if I have some difference uncarpeted surface?" Can it handle my slate floors!?!?!
Correct Answer:
A

Answer Choice Analysis:
(A) YUP, this rules out our concerns about other uncarpeted surfaces besides wood and tile.

(B) We don't care about carpeted floors, since this conclusion is only about uncarpeted floors.

(C) The trigger of this rule gets too specific for us to use. Do we know whether the cheap handhelds this author is recommending are "sufficient ONLY for small areas"? No, we don't. Since the trigger doesn't apply to anything we know, this rule isn't usable.

(D) This helps convince us we probably need a vacuum, but the author's conclusion is specifically about cheap, handheld vacuums, and this answer choice doesn't get us any closer to that idea.

(E) This would tell us that an inexpensive vacuum is likely to be less versatile than more expensive models (if anything that would weaken, but since we're only talking about someone needing to vacuum small, uncarpeted areas, it doesn't seem like we would be troubled by low versatility in the first place)

Takeaway/Pattern: Trying to articulate an objection is the easiest way to figure out where a potential assumption lies. We think, "Given that these cheap handhelds are easy to use and would probably be good to go on wood and tile, how could I still argue that they're NOT likely to be sufficient for my needs of vacuuming small uncarpeted areas."

#officialexplanation

[Als571]

Dear Patrick,

I know answer choice C is wrong, but I struggled to understand what C is saying:

Easy to use (handheld vacuum cleaner) & sufficient for only small areas of uncarpeted floor → inexpensive

What is exactly wrong with that ? The sufficient and necessary condition sorta align with stimulus.

[JohnZ880]

Dear Patrick,

I know answer choice C is wrong, but I struggled to understand what C is saying:

Easy to use (handheld vacuum cleaner) & sufficient for only small areas of uncarpeted floor → inexpensive

What is exactly wrong with that ? The sufficient and necessary condition sorta align with stimulus.

Because we don't know if the vacuum cleaner in question is sufficient "only" for small areas of uncarpeted floor. Maybe it's also sufficient for large or medium areas of uncarpeted. Maybe it's sufficient at cleaning carpeted areas as well.

[jhonnikolsonn926]

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