Logical Reasoning

PT12 · S4 · Q24 The problem that environmental economics aims

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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.

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.

24.

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

  1. Correct

    strongly, on the assumption that

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

    63% picked this

  2. strongly, unless economic decision-making has

    Trap

    4% picked this

  3. at best weakly, because the

    Trap

    13% picked this

  4. at best weakly, because the

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. not at all, since the

    Trap

    17% picked this

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