QUESTION TEXT: The Board of Trustees of the Federici…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Selling the paintings won’t lower the quality of the museum’s collection.
REASONING: The museum has some inferior paintings by Renoir and Cezanne.
ANALYSIS: Don’t get distracted by the fact that the museum needs money. The conclusion is very specific: the paintings can be sold without lowering the quality of the collection.
The director is assuming the museum will sell only the inferior paintings.
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- This argues against the director. There is another way to raise money. Though technically this doesn’t relate to the conclusion.
- CORRECT. If the board chooses which paintings to sell, then it might sell some high quality masterpieces, despite the curators advice.
- It doesn’t matter why the museum has certain paintings. We only care whether the overall quality of the collection will go down following the sale.
- We’re talking about the quality of the museum’s collection, not art prices.
- The curator proposes to sell inferior works of art, so this hardly seems relevant.
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