Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT17 S3 Q6 Explanation

Three major laundry detergent manufacturers

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Stimulus

Three major laundry detergent manufacturers have concentrated their powdered detergents by reducing the proportion of inactive ingredients in the detergent formulas. The concentrated detergents will be sold in smaller packages. In explaining the change, the manufacturers cited the desire to reduce cardboard packaging and other production costs. Market analysts predict that the market, will eventually bring about the virtual disappearance of old-style bulky detergents.

What this question is testing

Strengthen

Your task

Find the choice that makes the argument's conclusion more likely to be true.

Common trap

Answers that are consistent with the argument but add no real support, or that strengthen a claim the argument doesn't make.

Winning move

Locate the gap between evidence and conclusion, then pick the choice that closes it.

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The question
6.

Which one of the following, if true, most strongly supports the prediction made by

Answer choices

  1. Trap3% picked this

    Most smaller manufacturers of laundry detergents will consider it too expensive to retool factories for the production of

  2. Trap2% picked this

    Many consumers will be skeptical initially that the recommended small amount of concentrated detergent will clean laundry as effectively as the larger amount

  3. Trap0% picked this

    Some analysts believe that consumers will have to pay a greater cost per load of laundry to use the new concentrated detergent than they

  4. Trap2% picked this

    Major supermarkets have announced that they will not charge the detergent manufacturers less to display their detergents, even though the detergents will

  5. Correct93% picked this

    Consumers are increasingly being persuaded by environmental concerns to buy concentrated detergents when available in order

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

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