Economist: Historically, sunflower seed

Answer choices

1. A

   Negated Premise4% picked this

   Kalotopia's farming industry will deteriorate if sunflowers are not

   The statements suggest that Kalotopia’s farming industry would benefit if growing sunflower seed was renewed, but that doesn’t not imply that the farming industry would deteriorate if the practice is not renewed.

   4%
2. B

   Unsupported Relationship10% picked this

   Stabilizing Kalotopia's farming industry would improve the economy without damaging

   This suggests that anything that stabilizes the farming industry would benefit the economy without damaging the environment, but the statements only offered renewed growing of sunflower seed as means to achieve those outcomes.

   10%
3. C

   Too Strong - Speculation1% picked this

   Kalotopia's farming industry would be better off now if it had never ceased to grow any of the crops that

   From the statements alone it is impossible to say how the farming industry in Kalotopia would have fared had it never abandoned growing sunflower seed.

   1%
4. D

   Correct81% picked this

   A crop that was once a large production crop in Kalotopia would, if it were grown there again, benefit that

   Why this is right

   This is supported from the first, third, and fourth statements in the passage. It’s given that sunflower seed was once a large production crop in Kalotopia (first statement), that it would benefit Kalotopia’s farmers (third statement) and general economy (fourth statement).

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

   81%
5. E

   Unsupported Comparison4% picked this

   Sunflower seed is a better crop for Kalotopia from both the environmental and the economic viewpoints than are most crops

   Nothing in the statements compares the benefits to Kalotopia of growing sunflower seed with the benefits of growing other crops that could be grown there.

   4%