Logical Reasoning

PT17 · S3 · Q1 If a country’s manufacturing capacity

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If a country’s manufacturing capacity is fully utilized, there can be no industrial growth without new capital investment.

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 can be properly concluded from the statements above?

  1. Interest rates might in exceptional

    Trap

    2% picked this

  2. Correct

    A reduction in interest rates

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    76% picked this

  3. If a country’s manufacturing capacity

    Trap

    2% picked this

  4. New capital investment that takes

    Trap

    11% picked this

  5. Manufacturing capacity newly created by

    Trap

    9% picked this

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