Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT114 S1 Q18 Explanation

In order to determine automobile

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Stimulus

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. Certain factors, such as the driver’s age and past accident history, play an important role in these calculations. Yet these premiums should also increase with the frequency mishap increases in proportion to the number of times that person drives.

What this question is testing

Role

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
18.

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

Answer choices

  1. Trap7% picked this

    a premise of the

  2. Correct86% picked this

    the conclusion of the

    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.

  3. Trap3% picked this

    evidence offered in support of one of

  4. Trap3% picked this

    an assertion phrased to preclude an

  5. Trap0% picked this

    a clarification of a key term in

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