Logical Reasoning Test Practice Course: Deductive reasoning and syllogisms
Temaquiz utan tidsgräns: 18 frågor om Deductive reasoning and syllogisms, med en förklaring efter varje svar. Frågor och svar blandas varje gång.
Temaquiz 3: Deductive reasoning and syllogisms
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Svar: C. Priya has a first-aid certificate
Priya belongs to the group "guards at the site", and everyone in that group has the certificate. The statements say nothing about people outside the group.
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Svar: D. The blue van is not a rental
Nothing in the north yard is a rental, and the blue van is in the north yard, so it cannot be a rental.
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Svar: C. Everyone left the building
The "if" part happened, so the "then" part must follow. This form is called modus ponens.
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Svar: B. All trainees sign the attendance sheet
This is a chain: trainees are inside the briefing group, which is inside the signing group. So all trainees sign. The reverse is not stated.
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Svar: A. Shipment 12 went by truck
There are only two choices. Rail is ruled out, so it must be truck.
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Svar: D. The statements do not say whether Sam is a forklift operator
The rule only goes one way: operators wear boots. Other people may wear boots too, so Sam may or may not be an operator.
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Svar: B. Today's delivery did not arrive before noon
If it had arrived before noon, Lee would have signed. Lee did not sign, so it did not arrive before noon. This form is called modus tollens.
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Svar: A. Some cashiers get a transit discount
The cashiers who are students must get the discount, because every student does. Nothing is said about the other cashiers.
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Svar: C. A visitor who enters the lab is wearing safety glasses
"A only if B" means "if A, then B". Wearing glasses is required to enter, but it does not guarantee entry.
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Svar: D. The statements do not say whether Mia's badge has expired
The door could stay shut for other reasons. Concluding the badge expired is the mistake called affirming the consequent.
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Svar: B. At least one new hire speaks French
"Some" means at least one, and possibly all. It does not tell you that some new hires do not speak French.
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Svar: C. Some cleaners are not night-shift staff
A cleaner without a pass cannot be on the night shift, because every night-shift worker has a pass. Other cleaners might still work nights.
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Svar: C. No one in Room 4 has a staff badge
Everyone in Room 4 is a contractor, and no contractor has a staff badge, so no one in Room 4 has one.
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Svar: D. Today is a holiday
"A unless B" means "if not B, then A". If it were not a holiday, the store would have opened at 9. It did not, so it is a holiday.
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Svar: D. Some mechanics are drivers
"Some drivers are mechanics" can be turned around: some mechanics are drivers. Two "some" statements tell you nothing certain about drivers and supervisors.
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Svar: B. If it snows, the crew salts the lot. The crew did not salt the lot. So it did not snow.
Only the first one is valid: if snow always leads to salting, no salting means no snow. The others assume the rule works backwards.
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Svar: C. Ticket 88 is not high priority
Work backwards along the chain: no manager told means it did not go to Level 2, and that means it was not high priority.
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Svar: C. No inspector works part time
Inspectors are a group inside engineers, and no engineer works part time, so no inspector does. The student statement does not change this.
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