Goodbody, Inc., is in the process of finding

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct88% picked this

   Businesses forced to economize by the recession will want to take advantage of the lower rents available

   Why this is right

   This is saying, "during a recession, businesses will need to save money and so they'll consider moving location to a cheaper area outside the financial center". Goodbody's new PQ facility is outside the financial center, so according to this answer, during a recession, businesses will be increasingly motivated to consider facilities like PQ.

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

   88%
2. B

   No Distinction1% picked this

   Public transportation links the financial center with the area around

   This answer doesn't provide any difference between recessionary times and normal times, so it doesn't provide a reason why a recession would help (i.e. make it easier for) Goodbody to find tenants.

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3. C

   Deepens Paradox1% picked this

   The area in which the Parrot Quay development is located became derelict after the heavy industry that used to be there closed

   This answer makes it sound like in a previous recession, the area where PQ is located did very poorly, with heavy industry closing down. So, if anything, it's giving us a reason to think that during a recession, Goodbody would find it harder find tenants, since the area where PQ is located goes dormant during a recession.

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4. D

   No Impact2% picked this

   Many of Goodbody’s other properties are in the financial center and will become vacant if the recession is severe enough to force

   We're not really interested in learning about what happens to Goodbody's other properties, recession, since we're just trying to explain why Goodbody would find it easier to rent out PQ during a recession. Are the two things connected? Would a business, who was a tenant of a Goodbody property in the financial center, who then was forced out of business during a recession, become a likely tenant for Goodbody's PQ location? No, because they were forced out of business. In choice (A), the business still has the ability to re-locate and survive. In this one, the recession kills the business, so there's no entity left that would then be renting out PQ.

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5. E

   No Distinction8% picked this

   The recession is likely to have the most severe effect not on service industries, which require a lot of

   Since service industries would be possible tenants of a building that rents office space, Goodbody would definitely be relieved to hear that service industries are unlikely to be hit hardest. (note: that's a very weak positive ... i.e. "you don't have the worst kind of cancer") The easiest way to get rid of this answer, though, is that it doesn't offer anything new that would be true during a recession that would help Goodbody. The best this answer could do for us is make it so that office space tenants, such as those from service industries, are doing as well as normal during a recession. That's not good enough for our purposes. We have to explain why Goodbody will find it easier to find tenants. The strongest version of this answer choice is only saying that during a recession, Goodbody won't find it harder to find tenants.

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