Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT133 S2 Q11 Explanation

When a major record label

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Stimulus

When a major record label signs a contract with a band, the label assumes considerable financial risk. It pays for videos, album art, management, and promotions. Hence, the band does not need to assume nearly as much risk as it would if it produced its own records independently. For this reason, it the profits from the record sales of any band signed with it.

What this question is testing

Role

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
11.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the argument by the claim that a band signed with a major label does not need

Answer choices

  1. Contradiction5% picked this

    It is the only conclusion that the argument attempts

    The argument attempts to establish two conclusion. It supports an intermediate conclusion as well as a main conclusion.

  2. Contradiction4% picked this

    It is one of two unrelated conclusions, each of which the same premises are

    The claim is one of two conclusions the argument attempts to establish, but the two conclusions are related, since the intermediate conclusion is used to support the main conclusion.

  3. Contradiction5% picked this

    It is a general principle from which the argument's conclusion follows as

    While it is true that the claim is a general principle that supports the argument’s conclusion, the conclusion is not a specific instance but rather a general principle.

  4. Contradiction2% picked this

    It describes a phenomenon for which the rest of the argument

    The rest of the argument does not offer an explanation of the claim, since the first two statements support the claim and the claim goes on to support the main conclusion.

  5. Correct84% picked this

    Premises are used to support it, and it is used to support

    Why this is right

    This correctly describes the role of intermediate conclusion.

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

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