Factory manager: One reason the automobile

Answer choices

1. A

   Opposite1% picked this

   fails to recognize that the price of a particular commodity can

   He's not failing to recognize that. He's banking on that possibility. He thinks that by refurbishing their factory, the price of their commodity will change over time. If this answer is saying, "it'll change on its own", that doesn't mean "on its own, it will get low enough that it will become competitively priced".

   1%
2. B

   Correct88% picked this

   shifts without justification from treating something as one way of achieving a goal to treating it as the only

   Why this is right

   The goal is to get more competitive prices. In the evidence, refurbishing is presented as one way: "if we were to refurbish ..." In the conclusion, refurbishing is presented as the only way: "we must refurbish". This is one way of describing the Necessary vs. Sufficient flaw.

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

   88%
3. C

   Bad Conclusion / Premise Match7% picked this

   argues that one thing is the cause of another when the evidence given indicates that the second thing may in fact be

   Does the conclusion argue that one thing is the cause of another? Nope. The conclusion argues, "In order to achieve X, we must do Y." While that conclusion implies that Y can achieve X, it would be stretching too much to say that the conclusion is claiming that one thing was the cause of another. This answer choice describes the famous Causal Flaw, in which the author arrives at one possible causal explanation of something, even though other possible explanations exist (such as the Reverse Causality possibility posed by this answer).

   7%
4. D

   Bad Premise Match3% picked this

   recommends a solution to a problem without first considering any possible causes

   Does the conclusion recommend a solution to a problem? Yes. Does the evidence fail to consider any possible causes of that problem? No, the author tells us that "old and inefficient" equipment is the cause of our problematic high prices.

   3%
5. E

   Bad Conclusion Match1% picked this

   fails to make a definite recommendation and instead merely suggests that some possible course of

   Does this conclusion fail to make a definitive recommendation? Heck, no. The author is incredibly definitive: "we must refurbish!"

   1%