PrepTest 152

Correct Strengthen with Sufficient Premise answer choices will generally stick to connecting ideas already in the given argument. Here, the answer strays to discussing what should happen, which is outside the scope of the argument.

This answer is the inverse of the correct answer. The given premise is about people who rarely look at the packaging, so an answer that has a sufficient condition referencing those who do look at the packaging can't be triggered by the facts established in this argument.

While this answer provides a potential explanation as to why the warnings won't impact smoking habits, it doesn't guarantee it. The argument would still need a connection between these people and a failure to change smoking habits.

Correct. Argument or Facts:
Argument

Valid or Flawed:
Flawed

Question Type:
Strengthen with Sufficient Premise

Stimulus Summary:
Most people rarely look at cigarette packaging. A new law requires packaging to have a bunch of warnings. Therefore, most people will keep smoking.

Answer Anticipation:
For Strengthen with Sufficient Premise questions, the author will frequently jump from an idea in the premise to a completely different one in the conclusion. Our job is to connect those two ideas.

Here, the author concludes that people will not change their smoking habits since they won't look at the packaging. That's not established by the argument. While that might seem like a solid jump to you, and you may be asking now how could smoking habits be impacted by warnings that people aren't looking at, that's not your job in a Strengthen with Sufficient Premise question. Instead, we just need to connect the ideas.

Here, let's look for an answer similar to, "If people rarely look at the warnings on cigarette packages, those warnings won't affect their smoking habits."

Answer Explanation:
A complicated conditional statement, but this would translate to: If people don't regularly look at the packaging, then the new packaging cannot affect their smoking habits. That conditional connects the argument's premise to its conclusion, and thus it serves as a sufficient condition.

Key Takeaway:
For Strengthen with Sufficient Premise questions, stick to answers that connect ideas already present in the given argument.

This answer doesn't deal with the packaging specifically, or smoking habits at all. Without that, it can't serve as a sufficient assumption to a question that's about the connection between those two.