Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT6 S2 Q8 Explanation

Some companies in fields where

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

Some companies in fields where skilled employees are hard to find make signing an “agreement not to compete” a condition of employment. In such an agreement the employee promises not to go to work for a competing firm for a set period after leaving his or her current employer. Courts are increasingly are unwilling to consider hiring them during the period covered by the agreement.

What this question is testing

Paradox

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
8.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve

Answer choices

  1. Correct88% picked this

    Many companies will not risk having to become involved in lawsuits, even suits that they expect to have a favorable outcome, because

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

  2. Trap1% picked this

    In some industries, for example the broadcast media, companies’ main source of new employees tends to be people who are

  3. Trap2% picked this

    Most companies that require their employees to sign agreements not to compete are aware that these documents

  4. Trap4% picked this

    Many people who have signed agreements not to compete are unwilling to renege on a promise by going to

  5. Trap4% picked this

    Many companies consider their employees’ established relationships with clients and other people outside the company to

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