Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT124 S1 Q4 Explanation

This region must find new ways

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Stimulus

This region must find new ways to help business grow. After all, shoe manufacturing used to be a major local industry, but recently has experienced severe setbacks due to overseas competition, so there is a need for outdated public policy generally inhibits business growth.

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
4.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion drawn

Answer choices

  1. Correct83% picked this

    The region needs to find new ways to enhance

    Why this is right

    This best paraphrases the argument’s conclusion.

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

  2. Evidence0% picked this

    Shoe manufacturing is no longer a major source of income in

    This is evidence in support of the argument’s conclusion.

  3. Evidence2% picked this

    Shoe manufacturing in the region has dramatically declined due to

    This is evidence in support of the argument’s conclusion.

  4. Intermediate Conclusion13% picked this

    Business in the region must expand into new areas

    This is an intermediate conclusion that is supported by a premise and that also supports the main conclusion.

  5. Evidence2% picked this

    Outdated public policy inhibits business growth in

    This is evidence in support of the argument’s conclusion.

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