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Difficulty: EasyMost Strongly Supported Questions

The vast majority of professional tennis players use custom rackets that are tightly strung to provide more control. In contrast, beginner tennis players generally benefit more from loosely strung rackets, which provide more power and are more forgiving. Liam is a professional tennis player who recently switched to a loosely strung racket.

Which of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

  1. A
    Most beginner tennis players choose to use loosely strung rackets.
  2. B
    Any racket that provides a player with more power and is more forgiving must be loosely strung.
  3. Liam's current choice of racket stringing is uncommon among professional tennis players.Answer
  4. D
    Liam switched to a loosely strung racket because he wanted more power in his game.
  5. E
    Rackets that are tightly strung do not provide players with any power.

Answer

Liam's current choice of racket stringing is uncommon among professional tennis players.
The passage explicitly states that the 'vast majority' of professional players use tightly strung rackets. Because Liam is a professional who uses a loosely strung racket, his choice places him outside that vast majority, meaning his choice is uncommon for professionals.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the core facts given about professional players and about Liam.
The vast majority of professionals use tightly strung rackets. Liam is a professional who uses a loosely strung racket.
Synthesizing the explicit facts is necessary to find a conclusion that is directly supported by the text.
2
Determine the logical intersection of these facts without adding outside assumptions.
Since most professionals do not use loosely strung rackets, a professional like Liam who does use one is making a choice that goes against the majority.
This leads directly to a safe, strongly supported inference that avoids extreme language.

Key Concept

Synthesizing explicit premises to find a safely supported conclusion while avoiding assumptions about motives or reversed conditional logic.
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