Astronomer: This country's space agency is currently building a new space telescope that is, unfortunately, way over ...
lxnxrd19December 10, 2020
Negating with Unless statement
Is this the correct negation of answer choice B?
if the amount of money already spent
on the project is not small relative to the
agency's overall budget, then a government
agency should not cancel a partially
completed.
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Thanks for the question! Negating conditionals is tricky and doesn’t happen often on the LSAT. That said, the negation of a conditional is that the sufficient condition happens, but the necessary condition doesn’t have to happen. So here, the negation of (B) would be that if more than half of the total cost of a project has already been spent, then it doesn’t have to be the case that the project should be completed.
Hope this helps! Feel free to ask any other questions that you might have.
MargaritaJuly 31, 2023
Just because the project has already gone over budget, does not mean it is more than half of the total cost of the project spent. What evidence leads us to assume this?
MargaritaJuly 31, 2023
Just because the project has already gone over budget, does not mean it is more than half of the total cost of the project spent. What evidence leads us to assume this?
MargaritaJuly 31, 2023
to assume that more than half has been spent^
Emil-KunkinAugust 1, 2023
We know this from the last sentence. We are told that the money already spent is greater than the additional cost would be. So, we know that the amount we have spent is more than half of the total actual cost.
