Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT4 S1 Q20 Explanation

Pamela: Business has an interest

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Stimulus

Pamela: Business has an interest in enabling employees to care for children, because those children will be the customers, employees, and managers of the future. Therefore, businesses day-care benefits, that facilitate parenting.

Lee: No individual company, though, will be patronized, staffed, and managed only by its own employees’ children, so it would not be to a company’s advantage to when other companies do not.

What this question is testing

Parallel

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
20.

In which one of the following pairs consisting of argument and objection does the objection function most similarly to the way Lee’s objection functions

Answer choices

  1. Trap2% picked this

    New roads will not serve to relieve this area’s traffic congestion, because new roads would encourage new construction and generate additional traffic. Objection: Failure

  2. Correct79% picked this

    Humanity needs clean air to breathe, so each person should make an effort to avoid polluting the air. Objection: The air one person breathes

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

  3. Trap8% picked this

    Advertised discounts on products draw customers’ attention to the products, so advertised discounts benefit sales. Objection: Customers already planning to purchase a product accelerate

  4. Trap4% picked this

    If people always told lies, then no one would know what the truth was, so people should always tell the truth. Objection: If people

  5. Trap8% picked this

    Human social institutions have always changed, so even if we do not know what those changes will be, we do know that the social

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