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Humans are naturally compassionate and honest. In a study using strategically placed wallets that appear “lost”, it was found that wallets with money are more likely to be returned than wallets without money. Similarly, wallets that had a key and money are more likely to be returned than wallets with the same amount of money alone. This suggests that the primary reason for this behavior is compassion and empathy.

Which one of the following is the CORRECT logical inference based on the information in the above passage?

The correct answer is

Wallets with a key are more likely to be returned because people relate to suffering of others

The passage attributes the higher return rate for wallets containing a key to empathy: people relate to the inconvenience or suffering of losing the key. Thus the second statement follows.

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