PT105.S4.Q9

PrepTest 105 - Section 4 - Question 9

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To allay public concern about chemicals that are leaking into a river from a chemical company's long-established dump, a company representative said, "Federal law requires that every new chemical be tested for safety before it is put onto the market. ████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ███ █████████ ███████ ██ █████ ██████████████ █████████ ███ ████████

Summarize Argument

The representative comes to the implied conclusion that the public need not be concerned about chemicals leaking into the river from the company’s plant. In support, the representative states that every new chemical must legally be tested for safety before being sold, and that this requirement is analogous to the testing required for new pharmaceuticals.

Notable Assumptions

The representative assumes that because pharmaceuticals are tested for their safety when consumed, industrial chemicals are also tested at this standard. But maybe chemical testing uses a different standard of “safety,” for example merely being safe to work with.

The representative also assumes that the chemical company’s dump only contains chemicals that were tested to the current standard. Maybe standards have changed, or maybe not all suppliers respect the law.

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9.

Which one of the following, ██ █████ ████ █████████ ███████ ███ ████████████████ ███████ ████████ ████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██ █████████ █████ ███ █████

a

When pharmaceutical substances ███ ██████ ███ ██████ ████████ ██ ███████ █████████████ █ █████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████

b

Leakage from the ████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████

c

Before the federal ███ █████████ ███████ ██ █████████████████ █████████ ████ ████ ██████ █████████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ █████████ █████ █████████████ ████ ██ ████ ██████████

d

The concentration of ███ █████████ ███████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ████████ █████ ██ █████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ██████

e

The water in ███ █████ ██ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ████ ████ █ ██████ ██ ██████ ████████████ █████████

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