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Determine if the following deductive argument is valid or invalid. Select the best answer.

If you study hard, then you will be successful in college. You don't study hard. So, you won't be successful in college.
Select one:
a. Invalid, Affirming the Consequent
b. Valid, Modus Tollens
c. Valid, Disjunctive Syllogism
d. Invalid, Denying the Antecedent

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I believe the answer is C. Valid, Disjunctive, Syllogism :)
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