PrepTest 119, Section 4, Question 22
All highly successful salespersons are both well organized(35 more words not shown)
If all of the statements(11 more words not shown)
- ANo self-motivated salespersons(8 more words not shown)
- BAll salespersons who(9 more words not shown)
- CNo salespersons who(10 more words not shown)
- DAll salespersons who(8 more words not shown)
- EAll salespersons who(9 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Being organized and motivated doesn't guarantee success. The passage says highly successful salespeople have both traits. Other salespeople could have them too and still fall short of being highly successful.
Now separate the other two facts. Being well known among peers requires being highly successful. And being self-motivated rules out regretting the career choice. Those statements point in particular directions; we can't freely read them backward.
What we’re looking for
For this must-be-true question, slow down and connect only what we've actually been told. You can write the facts down if that helps, but the important work is understanding who each statement covers. A rule about successful people doesn't automatically describe everyone who is organized or everyone who is motivated.
Working the answers
- A
A salesperson could be motivated, organized, and still not highly successful. The first sentence never says that having both traits guarantees success. A rules out that possibility as though success would automatically follow from the two traits, which is more than we know.
- B
An organized salesperson could lack motivation. Or a motivated salesperson could be disorganized. The two characteristics are guaranteed to go together for highly successful salespeople, but B concerns people who aren't highly successful. We have no rule forcing their organization and motivation to come as a package.
- CCorrect
Start with a salesperson who is well known among peers. That person must be highly successful. Highly successful salespeople are self-motivated, and self-motivated salespeople do not regret their career choices. So the well-known salesperson cannot have that regret.
Every step is supported: well known means highly successful; highly successful means self-motivated; self-motivated means no career regret. Organization is another guaranteed characteristic, but we don't need it to finish this particular connection.
- D
A disorganized salesperson could still be self-motivated. In that case, the passage would guarantee no career regret. We aren't told that a lack of organization causes regret or that organization is required to avoid it. D adds a relationship that the facts don't establish.
- E
We know one way a salesperson is guaranteed not to regret the choice: being self-motivated. That doesn't make high success a requirement for having no regrets. Someone could be unsuccessful and still be content with the career. E turns the result we can establish for successful people into a requirement for everyone without regret.
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