medium · GMAT Verbal
All employees who have been with the firm for more than five years are eligible for the senior management bonus. Since Maria is receiving the senior management bonus this year, she must have been with the firm for more than five years.
Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to that in the argument above?
- If it rains, the ground gets wet. It is raining outside right now, so the ground must certainly be getting quite wet.
- Everyone who passes the bar exam can practice law. David is practicing law, so he must have passed the bar exam.
- Only authorized personnel may enter the secure lab. Susan entered the lab, so she must be authorized personnel.
- No student who fails the final exam can graduate at all. Tom graduated this spring term, so Tom did not fail the final.
- All birds have feathers. This particular unknown animal has feathers, so it might possibly be a bird.
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