The judgment that an artist is great always rests on assessments of the work the artist has produced. A series of great works is the only indicator of greatness. Therefore, to say that an artist is great is just to summarize the quality of his or her known works, and the artist's greatness can provide no basis for predicting the quality of the artist's unknown or future works.Which one of the following contains questionable reasoning most similar to that in the argument above?
Answer(s): A
The length of the stimulus and choices may be daunting, and so may their format, but if you seek to reduce everything to essentials, the right answer is right around the corner. The stimulus asserts, in two sentences that work as one, that a necessary condition of an artist's greatness is the knowledge of a series of great works.From that assertion, the stimulus draws a two-part conclusion, to wit, that: (1) "greatness" is merely an assessment based on an artist's works that are known, and hence that (2) one cannot predict the quality of unknown or future work based on the artist's "greatness. "Whether or not this seems reasonable to you (and it shouldn't, since the stem does identify the logic as "questionable"), we need to seek a two-part conclusion, part of which is a prediction.
Four boys -- Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul -- and three girls-- Nita, Rachel, and Trisha -- will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each locker must be assigned to either one or two children, and each child must be assigned to exactly one locker.Each shared locker must be assigned to one girl and one boy.Juan must share a locker, but Rachel cannot share a locker.Nita's locker cannot be adjacent to Trisha's locker. Fred must be assigned to locker 3.Which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of the children who must be among those assigned to shared lockers?
Answer(s): E
Piece of cake given our initial deductive work. Among those for-sure paired up are Juan (Rule 3), as well as Nita and Trisha (since we need two girls for the two sharings, and according to Rule 3, it ain't gonna be Rachel). Who is the other boy for a shared locker? No way to tell.
Four boys -- Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul -- and three girls -- Nita, Rachel, and Trisha -- will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each locker must be assigned to either one or two children, and each child must be assigned to exactly one locker.Each shared locker must be assigned to one girl and one boy.Juan must share a locker, but Rachel cannot share a locker.Nita's locker cannot be adjacent to Trisha's locker. Fred must be assigned to locker 3.If Trisha is assigned to locker 3 and Marc alone is assigned to locker 1, then which one of the following must be true?
Answer(s): B
As soon as you see that we're given new information -- and two pieces, yet! -- you should think to set up a little sketch for the purpose of this question, adding what you already know to what you're told. We see that one of the shared lockers must be #3.
Four boys -- Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul -- and three girls -- Nita, Rachel, and Trisha -- will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each locker must be assigned to either one or two children, and each child must be assigned to exactly one locker.Each shared locker must be assigned to one girl and one boy.Juan must share a locker, but Rachel cannot share a locker.Nita's locker cannot be adjacent to Trisha's locker. Fred must be assigned to locker 3.If the four boys are assigned to consecutively numbered lockers and Juan is assigned to locker 5, then which one of the following is a complete and accurate list of lockers each of which CANNOT be a shared locker?
Answer(s): D
If all of our boys are occupying consecutive lockers and Juan takes locker 5, then clearly 2 through 5 will be assigned to boys--meaning (lest we forget) that Rachel is forced to take locker 1. (Remember, she has a locker to herself.) Fred's always got locker 3, so Marc and Paul will take lockers 2 and 4, in either order. Don't forget Juan's locker partner.
Four boys -- Fred, Juan, Marc, and Paul -- and three girls -- Nita, Rachel, and Trisha -- will be assigned to a row of five adjacent lockers, numbered consecutively 1 through 5, arranged along a straight wall. The following conditions govern the assignment of lockers to the seven children:Each locker must be assigned to either one or two children, and each child must be assigned to exactly one locker.Each shared locker must be assigned to one girl and one boy.Juan must share a locker, but Rachel cannot share a locker.Nita's locker cannot be adjacent to Trisha's locker. Fred must be assigned to locker 3Once Rachel has been assigned to a locker, what is the maximum number of different lockers each of which could be the locker to which Juan is assigned?
Answer(s): C
This question has a slightly more theoretical bent; maybe it'll help to do some sketching, maybe not. Once Rachel gets her locker assignment -- and it doesn't say which, so we have to assume that the location is irrelevant -- there will be a maximum number of possibilities for Juan. What is it? Well, suppose we give Rachel locker 1. We would have to give Juan and his partner either locker 2, 4, or 5. (Fred, remember, is always the occupant of locker 3). It looks like the number we want is three. And indeed, no matter which locker is Rachel's, three possibilities exist for Juan and his locker partner. C.is correct.
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