City leader: If our city adopts the new

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: least expensive15% picked this

   The city should implement the least expensive job creation

   We only know about two job creation measures, and we know that the tourism plan is the less expensive of the two. We don't know anything about the least expensive measure available, so we have no support for saying the city should implement that one.

   15%
2. B

   Too Strong7% picked this

   In general, it is reasonable for the city to spend money to try to convince manufacturing companies to

   Too Strong: manufacturing in general One-Claim Support We were told it would be reasonable to spend money to try to convince an auto manufacturer to build a plant in the city. But we don't know if it's reasonable to convince most manufacturing plants to build in the city. Maybe auto plants are more appealing because they create more jobs than other manufacturing plants would. Maybe other manufacturing plants have a lot more pollution. Since we're only told about auto manufacturing, we can't speculate about what would be true for manufacturing, in general. We should be nervous picking this answer since it would only involve one-claim as support. The correct answer to an inference question will almost always involve combining 2 or more claims.

   7%
3. C

   Out of Scope: can't afford both12% picked this

   The city cannot afford both to spend money to convince an automobile manufacturer to build a plant in the city and to

   We don't have any grounds for saying that the city doesn't have enough money to do both things: the new tourism plan and trying to convince a car manufacturer to locate here. The fact that we're discussing both options doesn't imply that we will be choosing exactly one of them (we might choose neither, we might choose both).

   12%
4. D

   Correct66% picked this

   It would be reasonable for the city to adopt the new

   Why this is right

   We can support this. It's not definitely true, but it's supportable. We were told that it would be reasonable for the city to spend money to convince the auto manufacturer to build a plant here. And we're told that the tourism plan costs less but would create as many jobs. If it's reasonable to spend X dollars to create Y jobs, then wouldn't it be reasonable to spend less-than-X dollars to create Y jobs?

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

   66%
5. E

   Contradicted0% picked this

   The only way the city can create jobs is by

   We could either say this is too strong because we were never told that the new tourism plan is the only way to create jobs. Or we could say this is contradicted by the fact that we could potentially create jobs by convincing an automobile manufacturer to build a plant here.

   0%