Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT12 S4 Q24 Explanation

The problem that environmental economics aims

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Stimulus

The problem that environmental economics aims to remedy is the following: people making economic decisions cannot readily compare environmental factors, such as clean air and the survival of endangered species, with other costs and benefits. As environmental economists recognize, solving this problem requires assigning monetary values to environmental factors. But monetary values at economic decisions. Thus, environmental economics is stymied by what motivates it.

What this question is testing

Evaluate

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
24.

If the considerations advanced in its support are true, the passage’s conclusion

Answer choices

  1. Correct63% picked this

    strongly, on the assumption that monetary values for environmental factors cannot be assigned unless people make economic

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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  2. Trap4% picked this

    strongly, unless economic decision-making has not yet had any effect on the things categorized

  3. Trap13% picked this

    at best weakly, because the passage fails to establish that economic decision-makers do not by and large take

  4. Trap4% picked this

    at best weakly, because the argument assumes that pollution and other effects on environmental factors rarely

  5. Trap16% picked this

    not at all, since the argument is circular, taking that conclusion as one

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