June 2007 PrepTest, Section 3, Question 5
By Brandon Beaver | Published October 29, 2024
Type: Sufficient Assumption
Difficulty:
Explanations
Okay, so ants brought “particles” to neighbors that turned out to be stuff from their own dumping sites (lol that’s pretty funny—“here neighbor, might I offer you our trash?”). One guy thought they were gifts of food. But was she necessarily wrong? Maybe not. What if those dumping sites contain food?
A
This doesn’t fill in the gap that the dumping sites may have food in them.
B
They don’t have to be gifts—they just need to be food.
C
Perfect. This forecloses the possibility that the entomologist was still right. If the dumping sites contain zero food whatsoever, then the “particles” certainly weren’t food.
D
This doesn’t mean anything. You can always reject a food gift—that doesn’t make that any less of a food gift.
E
Recanting doesn’t mean you were wrong, necessarily. I could recant my statement that Billy Bob was the thief. That doesn’t mean Billy Bob wasn’t the thief.
Passage
Atrens: An early entomologist observed ants carrying partic
Question 5
Atrens's conclusion follows logically if which one of the fo