Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Medium

PT6 S2 Q17 Explanation

From a book review: The authors

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Stimulus

From a book review: The authors blithely claim that there are “three basic ways to store energy: as heat, as electricity, or as kinetic energy.” However, I cannot call to mind any effective ways to store energy as electricity, whereas any capable few more ways to store energy: chemical, gravitational, nuclear.

What this question is testing

Main Conclusion

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
17.

The reviewer makes which one of the following criticisms of a claim that appears in the

Answer choices

  1. Trap3% picked this

    There is no reason to consider any particular way to store energy any more basic

  2. Correct73% picked this

    The list given of ways to store energy is possibly inaccurate and

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

  3. Trap8% picked this

    It is overly limiting to treat basic ways to store energy as a question unrelated to the question of

  4. Trap14% picked this

    What needs to be considered is not whether various ways to store energy are basic but

  5. Trap3% picked this

    Except possibly for electricity, all ways to store energy are equally effective and

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