PrepTest 146, Section 1, Question 4
Monroe: Our organization's project has been a failure.(61 more words not shown)
Monroe and Wilkerson disagree over(8 more words not shown)
- AApproximately 2,000 homes(7 more words not shown)
- BBefore the organization's(11 more words not shown)
- CThe organization's project(14 more words not shown)
- DThe stated goal(20 more words not shown)
- ELeaving approximately 2,000(19 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
Two thousand homes still lack electricity. How many lacked it before? If the project had reduced that number from a million to 2,000, we'd have a very different picture of what it accomplished. A remaining problem doesn't tell us, by itself, that the effort failed.
Wilkerson supplies the missing starting point: over 5,000 homes lacked electricity, so around 3,000 received it. Wilkerson calls that a success. Monroe calls the project a failure because approximately 2,000 homes still lack power. They assess the same result differently.
What we’re looking for
For the disagreement question, focus on that actual result. Does finishing with about 2,000 homes still without electricity count as failure? Monroe says yes; Wilkerson says no. We don't need to decide which assessment is better to identify where they part ways.
Working the answers
- A
Wilkerson doesn't deny that about 2,000 homes remain without electricity. The reply treats that endpoint as compatible with substantial progress. The disagreement concerns how to judge the result, not whether this many homes still lack power.
- B
Wilkerson states the original figure, but Monroe doesn't address it. We can't infer that Monroe rejects the starting number merely because Monroe reaches a different judgment about the project's success.
- C
This goes further than Monroe's statement. Monroe calls a result with 2,000 homes still unserved a failure. Would Monroe also call the project a failure if only one home remained without electricity? Perhaps not. The stated goal is to reduce the number as much as possible, not explicitly to reach every last home regardless of circumstances. We don't have Monroe's position on C's absolute standard.
- D
Monroe gives this as the project's stated goal, and Wilkerson doesn't dispute it. Wilkerson points to progress toward that goal. Their opposing judgments don't establish disagreement over what the organization originally set out to do.
- ECorrect
This keeps the question tied to the result they actually discuss: about 2,000 homes remaining without electricity. Monroe treats that as failure; Wilkerson says bringing power to around 3,000 homes counts as success. Unlike C, E doesn't invent a more demanding standard about even a single unserved home.
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