No nonfiction book published by Carriage Books has ever earned a profit. ... ...

No nonfiction book published by Carriage Books has ever earned a profit. Since Carriage Books earned a profit on every book it published last year, it clearly did not publish a nonfiction book last year.

The pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most similar to that in which one of the following arguments?


(A) No actor represented by the talent agent Mira Roberts has ever won an important role in a major movie. Since every actor represented by Ms. Roberts had at least one important acting role last year, it is clear that none of those actors worked in a movie last year.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
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*This question is included in PT72 (Jun 2014): Logical Reasoning B