Q13 - If you climb mountains, you will

[b91302310]

Hello,

For this question, I chose (C) because it is the one most closely parallel to the stimulus. However, I was wondering why (B) is incorrect. Is that because the second premise in (B) mentions only "relax" but the conclusion makes the connection of "relax" and "playing golf", which the stimulus does not show?

Thanks.

[ManhattanPrepLSAT1]

That's definitely a reason to eliminate. Another way of looking at it is that the premises have no similar term so, the transitive property cannot be employed.

Great work!

For others, just in case someone would like to see this worked out.

Stimulus:

CM ---> ~ROA
~B ---> CM
----------------
ROA ---> B

Here are the answer choices put into notation. You can see that the stimulus is a valid argument that applies the transitive property and relies on a contrapositive. Only answer choice (C) accomplishes both.


(A)
~TS ---> ~LS
~LS ---> ~SB
---------------
TS

(B)
~G ---> ~EW
~T ---> RW
--------------
EW ---> RG

(C)
WC ---> ~IGP
~NCD ---> WC
---------------
IGP ---> NCD

(D)
~T ---> ~GA
~EE ---> T
--------------
T ---> ~EE

(E)
SM ---> ~W
~H ---> SM
------------
W ---> ~H

[alexg89]

You could also eliminate A quickly by taking a look at the conclusion which is "Therefore, you must try to swim" The stimulus uses wording that is more absolute/conditional in its conclusion so it can be deemed incorrect.