Daily Drills 15 - Section 15 - Question 4

P: A–most–BP: ?C: A–most–not X

jacimonroe January 15, 2019

I'm having trouble understanding this.

Could the answer not also be not x-> B

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Ravi January 15, 2019

@jacimonroe,

You're asking if the answer could also be not X - >B.

We have

P: A-most-B

P: ?

A-most-not X

We need to connect B with not X in a way to arrive at the conclusion

If all Bs are not X (let's say 100/100), and if most As are Bs (let's
say 51 out of 100), then most As by definition must not be X. This
works. B - >not X is our solution.

If we used not X - ->B instead, we can't conclude A-most-not X

Let's say 51/100 As are Bs (A-most-B)

Then we have all not Xs are Bs (100 out of 100).

What if the entire subset of Bs is a million? We could theoretically
have no overlap with As and not Xs, which is why not X - >B does not
work and doesn't help us arrive at the conclusion we're supposed to
arrive at.

Does that make sense? Let us know what you think!