Logical Reasoning

PT114 · S1 · Q18 In order to determine automobile

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In order to determine automobile insurance premiums for a driver, insurance companies calculate various risk factors; as the risk factors increase, so does the premium.

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.

18.

The claim that insurance premiums should increase as the frequency with which a driver drives increases plays which one of the following roles in the argument?

  1. a premise of the argument

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. Correct

    the conclusion of the argument

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    86% picked this

  3. evidence offered in support of

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. an assertion phrased to preclude

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. a clarification of a key

    Trap

    0% picked this

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