Please explain the answer.
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GLEE
· started 2018-11-26 04:11
· last activity 2019-12-22 00:49
· 4 replies
Not seeing why entrepreneurs are the only people who have ideas they want to implement.
E -> ITI
Not ITI -> E, which is what C seems to imply? I picked A. Thanks!
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Ravi
· 2018-12-20 23:06
@GLEE,
The conditional statement you've written is missing a bi-conditional arrow.
In the stimulus, we have
Highly successful entrepreneur - >main desire to leave a mark on the world
Highly successful entrepreneur< - >(See soln. - >Implement Idea)
Interestingly enough, the final sentence of the stimulus is actually completely redundant, as it's just the contrapositive of the biconditional statement from the second sentence:
(/II - >/See soln.)< - >/Highly successful entrepreneur
In combining the first two conditional statements above, we have
(See soln. - >Implement Idea)< - >Highly successful entrepreneur - >main desire to leave a mark on the world
From this, we see that (See soln. - >Impelment Idea) - >main desire to leave a mark on the world.
Answer choice (C) matches this perfectly, as it states that the main desire of all people who implement solutions whenever they detect them is to leave a mark on the world. This is a statement that must be true if all of the inventor's statements are true.
(C) maps to (See soln. - >Implement Idea) - >main desire to leave a mark on the world.
(A) is incorrect because we have no idea about the distribution of people in this hypothetical world. What if almost everyone in is a highly successful entrepreneur? Since we don't know about the relative percentages of people who are and aren't highly successful entrepreneurs, (A) is a statement that doesn't have to be true.
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Irene-Vera
· 2019-06-28 04:59
Sorry, could you explain or go into detail about how the last conditional statement is the contrapositive of the second. I've tried to see it and still cannot.
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ldr1026
· 2019-09-10 05:21
Could you please explain why the second condition is a bi-condition ? Is it because of the word unique?
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shunhe
· 2019-12-22 00:49
@ldr1026, that's right! The word unique sets up the other part of a condition - not only do highly successful entrepreneurs implement solutions whenever they see them, but they are unique in doing so, or the only ones to do so.
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