Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Hard

PT3 S4 Q22 Explanation

The United States Food and Drug Administration

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TopicsMust be True

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Stimulus

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the introduction of new therapeutic agents into the marketplace. Consequently, it plays a critical role in improving health care in the United States. While it is those in the academic and government research communities who engage in the long process of initial discovery laboratory to the marketplace. Only after the transfer can important new therapies help patients.

What this question is testing

Must be True

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
22.

Which one of the following statements can be inferred from

Answer choices

  1. Trap8% picked this

    The FDA is responsible for ensuring that any therapeutic agent that is marketed

  2. Correct67% picked this

    Before new therapeutic agents reach the marketplace they do not

    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.

  3. Trap10% picked this

    The research community is responsible for the excessively long testing period for new drugs,

  4. Trap3% picked this

    The FDA should work more closely with researchers to ensure that the quality of therapeutic

  5. Trap11% picked this

    If a new medical discovery has been transferred from the laboratory to the marketplace, it

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