Because of the recent transformation of the market, Quore, Inc., must increase productivity 10 percent over the cours...

sharpen7 March 2, 2018

Why did Naz negate the first condition? Is it because of the either/or rule?

Mehran March 3, 2018

@sharpen7 please refer to the video explanation for this question.

You can watch it by tapping the play icon in the top right hand corner of the screen while viewing the question in LSATMax.

esther June 28, 2018

i thought the word "must" introduced necessary conditions. why is ":must increase productivity 10 percent..." not a necessary condition

Mehran August 21, 2018

@esther increase productivity 10% is the necessary condition but the reason we are diagramming the way we did is that this is actually an EITHER/OR statement. Either increase 10% or go bankrupt.

Hope that helps! Please let us know if you have any other questions.

rebut March 18, 2020

Mehran,

could you expand on that please? I don't follow how the phrase being an "either/or" statement changes how we write the conditional. Thanks much.

Brett-Lindsay July 4, 2020

@rebut I think "either/or" means that the order doesn't matter at all:
Either A or B = Either B or A:
If Productivity does NOT increase 10% --> Quore will go bankrupt
equals
If Quore hasn't gone bankrupt --> Productivity must have increased by 10%

This is just randomly choosing one of the sides, negating it and making it the sufficient, and letting the other be the necessary. Diagrammed:

not 10% Increase --> B
or
not B --> 10% Increase