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The Planning Department budget increased from $100,000 in 2001 to $524,000 for this year.
The department does not spend five times as much money as it did in 2001 to perform the same duties?
Since the money is definitely fives times as much, I guess the answer would have to say the duties aren't the same?
Which one of the following, if true, most helps to support the claim made in the letter regarding the justification of the editorial's conclusion?
Departments other than the Planning
Departments other than the Planning Department are not relevant to the argument.
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Since 2001, the Planning Department
Even though the Planning Department has reduced spending on overtime pay, the fact remains that the department’s budget is five times what it was in 2001.
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In some years between 2001
The budget may not have increase each year between 2001 and this year, but the fact remains that the department’s budget is five times what it was in 2001.
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The budget figures used in
The critique takes place in the same inflation adjusted dollars as the original editorial and so the spending has increased five times from the level in 2001. The issue with the argument isn’t increased spending but rather the duties of the department.
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A restructuring act, passed in
Why this is right
This shows that the department does not spend five times as much to perform the same duties. While it does spend five times as much, it performs more duties than it did before.
Skill tested: Strengthen · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
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