Logical Reasoning

PT6 · S2 · Q13 Using clean-coal technologies to

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Using clean-coal technologies to “repower” existing factories promises ultimately a substantial reduction of polluting emissions, and will affect the full range of pollutants implicated in acid rain.

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.

13.

Which one of the following statements is an inference that can be drawn from the information given in the passage?

  1. Sulfur dioxide emissions are the

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. Noxious ozone is formed in

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    5% picked this

  3. Twenty percent of the present

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    1% picked this

  4. A substantial reduction of polluting

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    5% picked this

  5. Correct

    The choice of technologies in

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    88% picked this

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