Logical Reasoning

PT6 · S3 · Q6 Four randomly chosen market research

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Four randomly chosen market research companies each produced population estimates for three middle-sized cities; the estimates of each company were then compared with those of the other companies.

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.

6.

Which one of the following, if true, would best help explain why estimates of the current population of the rapidly growing city varied more than did current population estimates for the two other cities?

  1. Population changes over time are

    Trap

    1% picked this

  2. The population of the rapidly

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. The population of the rapidly

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. All population estimates of the

    Trap

    5% picked this

  5. Correct

    Whereas the companies used different

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    88% picked this

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