Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT12 S1 Q9 Explanation

Since multinational grain companies operate

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Stimulus

Since multinational grain companies operate so as to maximize profits, they cannot be relied on to initiate economic changes that would reform the world’s food-distribution system. Although it is true that the actions of multinational companies sometimes do result in such economic change, this result is incidental, arising not from the desire profits normally depends on a stable economic environment, one that discourages change.

What this question is testing

Main Conclusion

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
9.

The main point of the argument

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    the maximization of profits depends on a stable

  2. Trap8% picked this

    when economic change accompanies business activity, that change is initiated by concern for

  3. Trap7% picked this

    multinational grain companies operate so as to

  4. Trap1% picked this

    the world’s current food-distribution system is not in need

  5. Correct82% picked this

    multinational grain companies cannot be relied on to initiate reform of the

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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