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Mazen January 14, 2020

Question 10 of 50: Video explanation of Answer choice A

I agree that A is the wrong answer but not for the reasons stated by the video tutorial. I am concerned that I eliminated A for tho wrong reasons. I eliminated A because the "structure" is irrelevant to the variables at play in the stimulus. The video however states that A is wrong because it treats "structure" as a necessary when the stimulus treats it as sufficient. I don't see it, "structure," as either. I am asking for further clarification please?

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BenMingov January 14, 2020

Hi Mab9178, thanks for the question!

If you don't mind, let's have a fresh take at this without referencing the video. I am looking at this argument here and it provides two conditional statements:

1) Not 10% increase productivity - > Bankrupt (Not bankrupt - > 10% increase productivity)
2) 10% increase productivity attainable - > 20% increase productivity attainable (Not 20% increase productivity attainable - > Not 10% increase productivity attainable)

We can combine these statements (note that we are loosely interchanging "10% increase productivity" with "10% increase productivity attainable")

This becomes:

Not bankrupt - > 10% increase productivity - > 20% increase productivity attainable
Not 20% increase productivity attainable - > Not 10% increase productivity - > Bankrupt

We are looking for something that must be true based on these conditional statements.

This is what we have in answer choice E.

However, we are looking at why is answer choice A incorrect.

We simply don't know that it is ONLY due to the company's structure that the company can survive. There can be a multitude of reasons at play that would allow the company to survive. The passage never specifies this.

Moreover, this answer choice treats the situation as if we know that the company can survive. We don't know that it can. All the passage did was provide us with the conditions that would make this survival possible, but it never stated that the company satisfied these.

I hope this helps. Please let me know if you have any other questions.

Mazen January 14, 2020

Ben,

Thank you for your speedy reply. Your explanation helped me and reinforced my confidence.

Again, Thank you

Mazen

Ravi January 15, 2020

@Mazen, let us know if you have any other questions!