Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT153 S2 Q1 Explanation

In situations where it is difficult

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Stimulus

In situations where it is difficult to make informed decisions about products, consumers should be provided with the relevant information. The difficulty of determining whether a food product contained nutritious ingredients was resolved by requiring food manufacturers to print nutritional information on their productsʼ packaging. Similarly, many consumers are interested in conserving a product, &nbsp ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ ̲ .

What this question is testing

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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
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Which one of the following most logically completes

Answer choices

  1. Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

    consumers who are informed of the amount of energy used to produce a product should

    We're looking for a statement about what manufacturers should provide, or about what consumers should be provided with. manufacturers should provide to consumers the relevant information about how much energy was used to make a product. This answer is a statement about what consumers should choose.

  2. Unrelated to Goal0% picked this

    manufacturers should use less energy while

    We're looking for a statement about what information manufacturers should provide, or about what information consumers should be provided with. manufacturers should provide to consumers the relevant information about how much energy was used to make a product. This answer is a statement about how much energy manufacturers should use.

  3. Out of Scope1% picked this

    providing consumers with information about the energy used to produce a product would reduce the impact of fossil fuels

    Out of Scope: reduce impact of fossil fuels This starts off on the right foot, but we should just be saying, "Providing consumers with information about the energy used to produce a product should happen". We don't have any grounds for taking this conversation into the zone of what impact such information would have on fossil fuels. This would only work if in the food-half of the analogy we had heard that, "Once consumers had information about nutrition, they started eating more nutritious foods".

  4. Unrelated to Goal1% picked this

    consumers should demand products that require less energy

    We're looking for a statement about what information manufacturers should provide, or about what information consumers should be provided with. manufacturers should provide to consumers the relevant information about how much energy was used to make a product. This answer is a statement about what sort of products consumers should demand.

  5. Correct98% picked this

    manufacturers should be required to label their products with information about the amount of energy used

    Why this is right

    This completes the analogy, without going overboard into anything new or undiscussed. manufacturers should provide to consumers the relevant information about how much energy was used to make a product. They actually stuck very close to the food-nutrition example, in which the relevant information that consumers wanted was "required to be put on the packaging".

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

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