PT113.S3.Q15

PrepTest 113 - Section 3 - Question 15

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For a ten-month period, the total monthly sales of new cars within the country of Calistan remained constant. ██████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ████████████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ███████ ████████ ███ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███ ███ ██████ ██████ ████████ █████████ ████████████████ ██ ███ ███ ██ ████ ███████ ████████ █████████ ████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ██████ █████████ ██████ ███ █████ ██████ █████████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ██████████ █████████ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ██████ ████████ █████████████ ████ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ██████ ████████ ████████ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ██ ███ █████████ ███████

Summary

For ten months, the total monthly sales of new cars within Calistan remained constant. During this period the monthly sales of new cars manufactured by Marvel Automobile Company doubled, and its share of the new car market increased. Emission standards were imposed on new cars at the end of the ten month period. For three months following this imposition, Marvel Automobile Company’s share of the market declined, but its monthly sales remained constant at the level reached in the last month of the ten-month period.

Notable Valid Inferences

For a Must Be False question, the four wrong answers will be things that could be true. The correct answer will contradict what we know from the stimulus. If there is a valid inference we can make from the stimulus, the correct answer might contradict that valid inference. Here, we can infer that the new car sales of other companies besides Marvel increased in the months following the imposition of the emissions standards. This must be true because Marvel's market share declined, but its sales stayed the same. So, the correct answer might contradict this inference.

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15.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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