Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT12 S1 Q4 Explanation

When deciding where to locate

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

When deciding where to locate or relocate, businesses look for an educated work force, a high level of services, a low business-tax rate, and close proximity to markets and raw materials. However, although each of these considerations has approximately equal importance, the lack of proximity either to markets or to whereas having a higher-than-average business-tax rate rarely has this effect.

What this question is testing

Paradox

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
4.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy in

Answer choices

  1. Trap6% picked this

    Taxes paid by businesses constitute only a part of the tax revenue collected

  2. Correct80% picked this

    In general, the higher the rate at which municipalities tax businesses, the more those municipalities spend on education and

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

  3. Trap2% picked this

    Businesses sometimes leave a municipality after that municipality has raised its

  4. Trap2% picked this

    Members of the work force who are highly educated are more likely to be willing to relocate to secure work than

  5. Trap10% picked this

    Businesses have sometimes tried to obtain tax reductions from municipalities by suggesting that without such a reduction the business might

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