Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT13 S2 Q16 Explanation

Production manager: The building materials

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TopicsPrinciple-Strengthen

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Stimulus

Production manager: The building materials that we produce meet industry safety codes but pose some safety risk. Since we have recently developed the technology to make a safer version of our product, we should stop producing our version in order to protect public safety.

Sales manager: If we stop selling our current product, we will have no money to develop and promote the safer product. We need to continue to sell the less‐safe product in to market the safer product successfully.

What this question is testing

Principle-Strengthen

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
16.

Which one of the following principles, if established, most helps to justify the

Answer choices

  1. Trap4% picked this

    Companies should be required to develop safer products if such development can be funded from

  2. Trap2% picked this

    That a product does not meet industry safety codes should be taken as sufficient indication that the product

  3. Correct93% picked this

    Companies should not sell a product that poses safety risks if they are technologically capable of producing a

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

  4. Trap0% picked this

    Product safety codes should be reviewed whenever an industry replaces one version of a product with a technologically more

  5. Trap1% picked this

    In order to make building materials safer, companies should continually research new technologies whether or not they are required to do so in

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