Logical Reasoning

PT116 · S3 · Q6 Antonia: The stock market is

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Antonia: The stock market is the best place to invest your money these days; although it is often volatile, it provides the opportunity to make a large profit quickly.

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

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

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

Antonia's and Maria's statements provide the most support for holding that they disagree about whether

the stock market is often
Both Agree
Speaker 1 says this in her second and third claims. Speaker 2 affirms this in her first claim.
2% picked this
savings bonds can provide a
Nobody Agrees
Neither speaker claims that a bond can provide a large return. Speaker 2 says bonds provide income that is both constant and reliable, but the amount of return relative to the investment isn't implied.
0% picked this
the stock market provides the
Nobody Disagrees
Speaker two definitely agrees, but Speaker 1 doesn't necessarily disagree.
6% picked this
it is safer to invest
Nobody Disagrees
Speaker two definitely agrees, but Speaker 1 doesn't necessarily disagree.
12% picked this
Correct
it is preferable to pick
Why this is right
This one might seem at first to be a "half scope" answer (meaning 1 speaker doesn't address one of the major concepts), but it's the best that we've got. True, speaker 1 doesn't explicitly address the concept of "reliable income," but when she says that the volatile stock market is the best way to invest despite its volatility because of its big potential payoff, that lends strong support to the idea that she'd disagree that it' preferable to pick a reliable investment over a riskier one with a bigger potential payoff.
Skill tested: Agree/Disagree · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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