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2022 AMC 10B Problem 11

Problem 11 of 25Intermediate

All the high schools in a large school district are involved in a fundraiser selling T-shirts. Which of the choices below is logically equivalent to the statement “No school bigger than Euclid HS sold more T-shirts than Euclid HS”?

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The statement says: if a school is bigger than Euclid HS, then it did not sell more T-shirts than Euclid HS. Its contrapositive is: if a school sold more T-shirts than Euclid HS, then it is not bigger than Euclid HS. This is exactly choice B . Choice C is stronger than the original statement because it rules out a bigger school selling the same number of T-shirts. Thus, the answer is B .

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Concepts: logical deduction

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