Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT11 S2 Q6 Explanation

Cigarette smoking has been shown

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TopicsPrinciple-Strengthen

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Stimulus

Cigarette smoking has been shown to be a health hazard; therefore, governments should ban promote smoking.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
6.

Which one of the following principles, if established, most strongly supports

Answer choices

  1. Trap42% picked this

    Advertisements should not be allowed to show people doing things that

  2. Trap1% picked this

    Advertisers should not make misleading claims about the healthfulness of

  3. Trap0% picked this

    Advertisements should disclose the health hazards associated with the products

  4. Trap2% picked this

    All products should conform to strict government health and

  5. Correct55% picked this

    Advertisements should promote only healthful

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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