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Difficulty: EasyStatement and Assumptions

Statement:
"The state education board has decided to provide free digital tablets to all high school students to facilitate remote learning during the academic year."

Assumptions:
I. High school students possess the basic capability to operate digital tablets.
II. Providing free digital tablets is the only way to facilitate remote learning.

Which of the above assumptions is/are implicit in the statement?

  1. A
    Only assumption II is implicit
  2. B
    Both assumptions I and II are implicit
  3. Only assumption I is implicitAnswer
  4. D
    Neither assumption I nor II is implicit
  5. E
    Either assumption I or II is implicit

Answer

Only assumption I is implicit
Assumption I is logically necessary because providing tablets would not facilitate learning if students could not use them. Assumption II is invalid because the original statement does not imply that tablets are the exclusive method for remote learning, making 'the only way' an unwarranted extreme assumption.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the main statement to identify the intended action and its underlying goal.
The action is 'providing free digital tablets' and the goal is 'to facilitate remote learning'.
Understanding the cause-and-effect relationship in the statement is necessary to determine what must be inherently true for the statement to make sense.
2
Evaluate Assumption I against the statement's goal.
Assumption I is implicit.
For digital tablets to successfully facilitate learning, it is a logically necessary, unstated premise that the students actually know how to operate them. If this were false, the board's plan would be entirely ineffective.
3
Evaluate Assumption II against the statement's wording.
Assumption II is not implicit.
While the board believes tablets will help facilitate learning, the statement does not claim or assume that this is the absolute 'only way' to achieve the goal. Extreme restrictive words like 'only' usually indicate an invalid assumption unless explicitly supported by the text.

Key Concept

Identifying implicit premises by evaluating logical necessity and avoiding extreme or absolute inferences.
Estimated Time:45s
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