Logical Reasoning

PT3 · S4 · Q3 If the city council maintains spending

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If the city council maintains spending at the same level as this year’s, it can be expected to levy a sales tax of 2 percent next year.

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.

3.

Which one of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most closely similar to that of the argument above?

  1. If house-building costs are not

    Trap

    8% picked this

  2. If shops wish to reduce

    Trap

    5% picked this

  3. Correct

    If the companies in the

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    79% picked this

  4. If airlines wish to make

    Trap

    4% picked this

  5. If newspaper publishers wish to

    Trap

    4% picked this

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