medium · LSAT Logical Reasoning
You cannot get a promotion unless you meet your sales targets. You met your sales targets, so you will get the promotion.
The reasoning in the argument is flawed because the argument
- presumes, without justification, that satisfying a prerequisite is by itself enough to produce the outcome that prerequisite makes possible
- overlooks the possibility that meeting sales targets is irrelevant to whether a promotion is awarded
- depends on a misreading of the word 'unless,' which in fact introduces a guarantee rather than a requirement
- concludes that an outcome will not occur on the basis that a required condition for it has failed to be met
- fails to consider that a person might be promoted even though that person never met the stated sales targets
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- Which one of the following can be properly inferred from the statements above?
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