New York City SHSAT 2017

Contrapositive Exercise Now try a question in testlike format. IF/THEN TIP Whenever = If EXAMPLE If Louis eats another cheesebur ...

On if/then questions, identify the contrapositive of the statement and then locate it among the answer choices. The answer choic ...

COMPLEX IF/THEN QUESTIONS Some if /then questions contain multiple clauses. Don’t worry! Combined Statesments Two “if” statement ...

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Practice Set When you do the following practice problems, make sure to think about what you learned in this chapter. Do not jump ...

Question 16 relates to the following information: (A) two (B) three (C) four (D) five (E) Cannot be determined from the informat ...

(A) nyeer (B) deniro (C) shaw (D) cog (E) joch In the code below, each letter represents one syllable. The letters are not neces ...

Some writers are actors. No doctor is a writer. If the above statements are true, which of the following must also be true? (F) ...

Every baseball umpire has played the game in his youth. Vito is a baseball umpire. Therefore, Vito has probably played the game ...

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LOGICAL CLUES EXERCISE Clues: All, none Deduction: Some people who did not go to business school are highly motivated. Do you kn ...

CONTRAPOSITIVE EXERCISE If Louis did not get sick, then he did not eat another cheeseburger. If I have to do my homework, th ...

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PRACTICE SET A If one juror had never been able to agree with the others, then the members of the jury never came to a unanimous ...

Statement 4 gray frame, hangs at eye level Statement 5 signed Statement 4 (gray frame, hangs at eye level) must refer to the lan ...

We can put Statements A and B together to get M Re A J. Robert isn’t included here because we know Robert came home before Jim a ...

L L We know from the last two sentences that Marion is going to stop at the drug store first and make the third and the fifth st ...