Can You Please Diagram?

Thanks for your question @teddyteddted This question is an excellent candidate for diagramming, because it is comprised entirely of conditional statements. Diagramming will helps us find the missing logical link between this premises and the conclusion. Let's go ahead and diagram the stimulus and its contrapositives: p: not IE - > RS not RS - > IE p: not MPA - > not IE IE - > MPA ____________ c: MQP - > MPA not MPA - > not MQP This diagram allows us to see that the missing logical link is between maintaining the quality provided (MQP) and reduced spending (RS)

I am not sure about the link here, can you please explain a little more?

@letc, Let's map the premises and conclusion so that we can see where the missing link is more easily. Premise 1: /Inc enrollment - > reduce spending Premise 2: /aggressive marketing - >Inc enrollment With these two premises, we can link them together since they both have /Inc enrollment in them /aggressive marketing - >/Inc enrollment - >reduce spending Conclusion: /aggressive marketing - >/maintain quality See where the gap is now? With the premises, we have A - >B - >C. With the conclusion, we have A - >D. What's missing? C - >D. We need to connect concept C (reduce spending) to concept D (/maintain quality) in order to make the argument valid. Now, let's look for an answer choice that gives us reduce spending - >/maintain quality Answer choice (D) gives us what we're looking for. It says, "The university will not maintain the quality of the education it provides if it reduces spending next year." This maps out to reduce spending - >/maintain quality We have found the missing link, and we can confidently answer this question with answer choice (D).

Great thanks!

@letc happy to help!