Logical Reasoning

PT145 · S2 · Q1 An electric utility has determined

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An electric utility has determined that a new power plant is needed and has decided to build either a natural gas-fired plant or a waste-to-energy plant that would serve as both a trash incinerator and a power plant.

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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Which one of the following, if true, most helps to justify the environmentalists' position?

  1. Modern gas-fired power plants produce

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. In the area where the

    Trap

    8% picked this

  3. Correct

    The waste-to-energy plant would replace

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    89% picked this

  4. Most of the environmentalists believe

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. The vast majority of the

    Trap

    1% picked this

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