Most successful entrepreneurs work at least 18 hours a day, and no one who works at least 18 hours a day has time for...
mahosmarJanuary 1, 2020
Why is E incorrect?
If the diagram reads successful entrepreneursmostwork 18+hours/day and the answer says some successful entrepreneurs work <18hr/day, how can you just negate the right part of the statement and still have it be true?
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It is critical to note that the wrong answers are those that COULD be true. They do not have to be true, but there must be at least a possibility that they are true.
Therefore, it is possible that some successful entrepreneurs work less than 18 hours a day. We know that most successful entrepreneurs work 18 or more hours a day, but this does not necessarily mean that all successful entrepreneurs do so. Perhaps we have 20 successful entrepreneurs, of which 15 work 19 hours a day, and 5 work 10 hours a day. This would satisfy the condition that most successful entrepreneurs work 18 or more hours a day, while allowing us to also say that some successful entrepreneurs work less.
This scenario could be true or it could be false, but the possibility it is true is all that we need to eliminate it. This is different than negating the original statement to make a new statement that is always true.
Does that make sense? Please let us know if you have any other questions!
