Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT13 S4 Q3 Explanation

Kim: Some people claim that

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Stimulus

Kim: Some people claim that the battery-powered electric car represents a potential solution to the problem of air pollution. But they forget that it takes electricity to recharge batteries and that most of our electricity is generated by burning polluting fossil fuels. Increasing the number of electric cars on the road would it would at best be an exchange of one source of fossil-fuel pollution for another.

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
3.

The main point made in Kim’s argument

Answer choices

  1. Trap6% picked this

    replacing gasoline-powered cars with battery- powered electric cars will require building

  2. Trap0% picked this

    a significant reduction in air pollution cannot be achieved unless people

  3. Trap13% picked this

    all forms of automobile transportation are equally harmful to the environment in terms of the

  4. Correct81% picked this

    battery-powered electric cars are not a viable solution to the

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

  5. Trap0% picked this

    gasoline-powered cars will probably remain a common means of transportation for

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