In a town containing a

Answer choices

1. A

   Alternate Explanation5% picked this

   During the past year other tourist attractions have opened up in

   This gives us a way to explain why revenue is higher for hotels/restaurants than for this one tourist attraction: people coming to this town (spending money at hotels and restaurants) are now choosing to visit these new tourist attractions instead.

   5%
2. B

   Alternate Explanation15% picked this

   Those possessing passes made more frequent trips to the attraction last year than

   This gives us a way to explain why revenue is higher for hotels/restaurants than for this one tourist attraction: people who had passes visited the town multiple times this year, each time, spending money at hotels and restaurants but only giving money to the tourist attraction the first time, when they bought their yearly pass.

   15%
3. C

   Alternate Explanation9% picked this

   While the cost of passes is unchanged since last year, hotel and meal

   This gives us a way to explain why revenue is higher for hotels/restaurants than for this one tourist attraction: people coming to this town are still spending money on the hotels, restaurant, and the tourist attraction, but since the hotels and restaurants raised their prices, a person this year who visits the town, stays at a hotel, eats at restaurants, and visits the attractions is spending a bigger share of their money on the hotel / restaurants, since those prices have gone up.

   9%
4. D

   Correct62% picked this

   The local board of tourism reports that the average length of stay for tourists remained unchanged

   Why this is right

   Since we're trying (primarily) to find Alternate Explanations to explain this difference between hotel/restaurant revenues and tourist attraction revenue, being told about something that didn't change isn't useful to us. We need a change to explain a change.

   Skill tested: Weaken · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

   62%
5. E

   Undermines Plausibility of Author's Story8% picked this

   Each pass contains a photograph of the holder, and during the past year these photographs

   It's common on EXCEPT questions, that of the four answers we're eliminating, 3 of them work a certain way and the 4th one works a different way. A, B, and C gave us alternate explanations for the curious fact. E is undermining the plausibility of the author's explanation. It's not very plausible that people are selling or sharing their passes with others if it's hard to get into the tourist attraction with someone else's pass (since the gatekeepers check the photo on the ID to see if it matches the person using it).

   8%