In order to cut costs and thereby maximize his profit, Mr. Kapp used inferior materials in constructing the library. ...

shunhe on June 14, 2020

Hi @kenken,

Thanks for the question! So we’re asked here to assume one of the statements in the answer choices to get to the conclusion. So let’s look at the passage. Mr. Kapp used inferior materials to construct the library. It doesn’t matter if it was legal, it was wrong, since he knew that his action would put people at serious risk.

Doing a bit of pre-phrasing, it seems like we need to connect the idea of something being wrong and knowingly putting people at risk. And this is what (D) tells us, that it’s wrong to knowingly put people at serious risk for the sake of profit. If this is true, and Mr. Kapp knowingly put people at serious risk for the sake of profit, then Mr. Kapp did something wrong. In general, with strengthen with sufficient premise questions, you’ll often be looking for key terms in the stimulus that need to be connected together, as I did in the above explanation.

Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.

g_cirelli on August 6, 2020

Hi! I was a split between D and E. I understand why D is correct, but how can I eliminate E? Can it be eliminated because this answer choice is basically stated in the stimulus and not assumed?