LSAT Practice with Formal Logic online Test

The electorate has a low IQ. What can you deduce?


The government is indeed effective. What can you deduce?


The government is corrupt. What can you deduce?


The democratic process is efficient. What can you deduce?


Rod Blagojevich is the governor of Illinois. WHat can you deduce?







Description:

Practice with Conditional Statements and Deductions.

Write the following as conditional statements, find the relevant contrapositives and then answer
the questions that follow
a) When the electorate has a low IQ, the democratic process is inefficient
b) The government is ineffective unless one party holds a filibuster-proof majority
c) When one party has a filibuster-proof majority, the government is vulnerable to corruption
d) When the government is ineffective, the democratic process is inefficient
e) When the democratic process is inefficient, Rod Blagojevich is always the governor of Illinois.
Otherwise, he cannot be.

Comments
Kalyan C Dudala
By: Kalyan C Dudala
505 days 14 hours 11 minutes ago

Hey folks! Let me know if this helps and I'll add more material.

Kalyan C Dudala
By: lavanya
133 days 2 hours 17 minutes ago

hi tis makes us to think a lot. good one.interesting too

viktor ESL
By: viktor ESL
386 days 10 hours 31 minutes ago

I'm afraid I hadn't read the description before I took the test.

viktor ESL
By: viktor ESL
386 days 10 hours 9 minutes ago

Hello Kalyan, thank you for another interesting test.

Answer 2 in unclear for me for following reason: Why does "the government is vulnerable to corruption" in premise c) mean that the government is corrupt?

Well, I agree it also doesn't mean that the government is not corrupt yet however when "the government is vulnerable to corruption" it may or may not me corrupt.

I am heading at the right direction? Thank you for your reply.

Kind Regards

viktor ESL
By: Kalyan C Dudala
373 days 22 hours 5 minutes ago

Hi Viktor,

My apologies for the long delay. Its been a busy couple of weeks and this fell through the cracks. You're absolutely right, there was a shift in terms there. The instructions should have read "The government is corrupt, rather than the government is vulnerable to corruption". They have been modified. Thanks for pointing that out.

Best,
Kalyan

viktor ESL
By: Kalyan C Dudala
373 days 22 hours 3 minutes ago

I've been trying to edit the test to fix the discrepancy, but there doesnt appear to be an option to. Can any of the WizIQ folks help?

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