QUESTION TEXT: Bus driver: Had the garbage truck not…
QUESTION TYPE: Principle – Justify
CONCLUSION: The bus company shouldn’t reprimand me.
REASONING: I obeyed the law, and the truck was speeding.
ANALYSIS: On Principle-Justify questions, you need to connect the reasoning to the conclusion with a “should” statement.
So you just say: “If I obeyed the law AND the other didn’t ➞ reprimand”
Most of the wrong answers either talk about things other than reprimanding, or they talk about who is responsible. Nothing in the stimulus talked about responsibility.
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- The conclusion is about a reprimand from the company. This is about who is responsible. Different thing.
- The police report didn’t say who was solely responsible.
- This tells us a sufficient condition for reprimanding. We’re looking for a sufficient condition for not reprimanding.
- We have no idea if this applies, because the stimulus doesn’t tell us whether the driver “could reasonably have been expected to avoid” the accident or not.
- CORRECT. This works. We know the driver didn’t violate a regulation. This answer says that if that’s true, then there should be no reprimand.
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