Must be TrueDiff: Medium
Logic Breakdown
Passage Summary: You can't have a great dinner without good ingredients, which come from healthy soil, which comes from good farming, which only happens if a society cares about its resources.
Reasoning: A good meal requires good food, which requires good soil, which requires good farming, which requires a culture that values natural resources.
Analysis: This stimulus provides a series of necessary conditions, essentially creating a logical chain where each step depends on the one following it. In a 'Must be True' scenario, we can infer that if the first item (a good meal) exists, every subsequent item in the chain must also exist. Conversely, if the final item (the specific culture) is missing, the first item cannot possibly exist. Look for an answer that correctly connects these links or applies the contrapositive of the chain.
Reasoning: A good meal requires good food, which requires good soil, which requires good farming, which requires a culture that values natural resources.
Analysis: This stimulus provides a series of necessary conditions, essentially creating a logical chain where each step depends on the one following it. In a 'Must be True' scenario, we can infer that if the first item (a good meal) exists, every subsequent item in the chain must also exist. Conversely, if the final item (the specific culture) is missing, the first item cannot possibly exist. Look for an answer that correctly connects these links or applies the contrapositive of the chain.
Passage Stimulus
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Unlock Full Passage12.Which one of the following can be properly inferred from Rosen's statement?
Correct Answer
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A paraphrases the chain: good meals depend on natural conditions (e.g., soil) and on cultural conditions (a culture that values maintaining resources), since both appear as necessary links in the chain leading to good meals.
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