Logical Reasoning

PT15 · S3 · Q26 When the manufacturers in a

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When the manufacturers in a given country are slower to adopt new technologies than their foreign competitors are, their production costs will fall more slowly than their foreign competitors’ costs will.

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.

26.

If the statements above are true, which one of the following must also be true on the basis of them?

  1. If the manufacturers in one

    Trap

    2% picked this

  2. If manufacturers in one county

    Trap

    12% picked this

  3. If a country’s foreign competitors

    Trap

    8% picked this

  4. If a country’s manufacturers adopt

    Trap

    10% picked this

  5. Correct

    If a country’s manufacturers can

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    68% picked this

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