Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: Counterfeiters sometimes need to measure real bills to make good fakes, so we must stop them from being able to measure those bills if we want to stop the fakes.

Conclusion: Preventing high-quality counterfeiting requires making banknote images very difficult or impossible to measure accurately.

Reasoning: Some methods of creating high-quality fake bills rely on taking precise measurements of the images on real bills.

Analysis: The argument identifies a 'method' (measuring) used by 'certain' counterfeiters and concludes that we 'must' block this method to prevent the crime. This is a classic Sufficient Assumption setup where the premise is too narrow for the broad conclusion. To make the conclusion follow logically, we need to assume that measuring is the *only* way to produce high-quality counterfeits. If there were other ways to make fakes that didn't require measurement, then making images hard to measure wouldn't necessarily prevent counterfeiting.

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The argument's conclusion can be properly drawn if which one of the following is assumed?

Correct Answer
B
B states that once images have been measured accurately, there’s no further impediment to exact replication. Combined with the premise that certain methods rely on accurate measurement, this makes it so that if accurate measurement remains possible, high-quality counterfeits remain possible—so to prevent them, images must be made hard to measure.
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