Find the statement that must be true according to the given information.…
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Find the statement that must be true according to the given information.
Vincent has a paper route. Each morning, he delivers 37 newspapers to customers in his neighborhood. It takes Vincent 50 minutes to deliver all the papers. If Vincent is sick or has other plans, his friend Thomas, who lives on the same street, will sometimes deliver the papers for him.
- A.
Vincent and Thomas live in the same neighborhood.
- B.
It takes Thomas more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers.
- C.
It takes Thomas less than 50 minutes to deliver the papers.
- D.
Thomas would like to have his own paper route.
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Correct answer: A
In a 'must be true' inference question, the correct choice is the one that follows strictly and necessarily from the facts stated in the passage, nothing more and nothing less. A choice that adds a comparison, a preference, or any detail the passage never mentions cannot be the answer, however plausible it may sound.
The passage says Thomas 'lives on the same street' as Vincent. Since a street is always part of a neighborhood, living on the same street guarantees living in the same neighborhood; this is a direct, necessary consequence of the given sentence, requiring no outside assumption.
The claim that Thomas takes more than 50 minutes to deliver the papers cannot be verified; the passage gives Vincent's time (50 minutes) but never states how long Thomas takes.
The claim that Thomas takes less than 50 minutes has the same problem; no timing information is ever given for Thomas, so no comparison can be drawn either way.
The claim that Thomas would like his own paper route is not supported anywhere in the passage; the text only says Thomas fills in for Vincent occasionally, saying nothing about Thomas's own wishes.
Since only the same-neighborhood statement is a direct, necessary consequence of the passage, that is the one that must be true.