All doctors have advanced medical degrees. No employees in Clinic C have advanced medical degrees. Based on the information above, which of the following statements CANNOT be true?
A. All employees in Clinic C are not doctors.
B. All doctors are employees who work in Clinic C.
C. Some Clinic C employees are not doctors.
D. Some doctors are not employees who work in Clinic C.
E. No employees in Clinic C are doctors.



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Answer:

Option B, "All doctors are employees who work in Clinic C"

Explanation:

The first two statements allow us to make an assumption about Clinic C. If all doctors have advanced medical degrees and no employees have said advanced medical degrees, then it can be safely deduced that no employees at Clinic C are doctors. This sentiment can be expressed a few different ways, as given by options A and E -- all employees in Clinic C are not doctors; and no employees in Clinic C are doctors. These would be true statements.

The question, however, asks which statement cannot be true, with emphasis on that negating terminology. This rules out option A and E as correct choices by default. Now, we reason through the other answer choices.

Option B states that all doctors are employees who work in Clinic C. This cannot be true, given that Clinic C has no doctors. Also, doctors, of course work in other places that are not Clinic C.

Option C states that some Clinic C employees are not doctors. While this is technically true, because there are no doctors in the clinic, it also insinuates that other Clinic C employees may be doctors. It is not the best answer choice available.

Lastly, Option D states that some doctors are not employees who work in Clinic C. Like the previous choice, this statement is technically true but also insinuates that other doctors may be employees at the clinic, making it a less-appealing answer.

Therefore, the best answer choice that simply cannot be true given the prompt is that all doctors are employees who work in Clinic C, option B.

Statement  ('All doctors are employees who work in Clinic C') cannot be true because it contradicts the premise that no employees in Clinic C have advanced medical degrees, which is a requirement to be a doctor. Therefore, the correct answer to the question is option b.

Based on the premise that all doctors have advanced medical degrees and the fact that no employees in Clinic C have advanced medical degrees, we can analyze the provided statements. Statement A suggests that all employees in Clinic C are not doctors, which could logically be true based on the premises.

Statement B states that all doctors are employees who work in Clinic C, which cannot be true, as it contradicts the premise that employees in Clinic C do not have advanced medical degrees, and therefore, cannot be doctors. Statement C implies that some employees in Clinic C are not doctors, which logically could be true.

Statement D suggests that some doctors are not employees who work in Clinic C, which is also logically possible. Statement E proposes no employees in Clinic C are doctors, which fits the premises provided.

Based on this analysis, the statement that CANNOT be true is: B. All doctors are employees who work in Clinic C.

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