If the plan is approved, profits will increase. The plan is approved. Which must be true?

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If the plan is approved, profits will increase. The plan is approved. Which must be true?

The statement tests conditional reasoning: if P then Q, and P is true, therefore Q must be true. Here P is “the plan is approved” and Q is “profits will increase.” Since the plan is approved, the profits increasing follows necessarily. So the only must-be-true conclusion is that profits will increase. The other options don’t follow from the given information: profits will not increase contradicts the derived result; profits may increase or may not ignores the definite deduction; and the plan will increase profits speaks about the plan’s action rather than the outcome under this conditional, which isn’t the exact entailment from the given premises.

The statement tests conditional reasoning: if P then Q, and P is true, therefore Q must be true. Here P is “the plan is approved” and Q is “profits will increase.” Since the plan is approved, the profits increasing follows necessarily. So the only must-be-true conclusion is that profits will increase.

The other options don’t follow from the given information: profits will not increase contradicts the derived result; profits may increase or may not ignores the definite deduction; and the plan will increase profits speaks about the plan’s action rather than the outcome under this conditional, which isn’t the exact entailment from the given premises.

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