PT131.S1.Q25

PrepTest 131 - Section 1 - Question 25

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Summarize Argument

The author concludes the EZ Corporation could increase profits by having more staff parties during business hours. Why would this work? Because corporations that encourage frequent social events in the workplace have high profits than corporations that don’t.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes, based on a correlation between workplace social events and higher profits, that the former causes the latter. The author therefore assumes the relationship isn’t reversed (i.e. higher profits causing workplace social events), and that there isn't a third factor related to both profits and workplace social events.

The author also assumes that holding social events during work hours wouldn't cause enough of a productivity loss to negate any increase in profitability that social events may cause.

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25.

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a

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b

Corporations that have ████████ █████ ███████ █████ ████████ █████ █████████ ████ ██████ ███████ ████ ██ ████████████ ████ ████ ████████ █████ ███████ ██████ ████████ ██████

c

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d

Frequent social events ██ █ █████████ █████████ █████ █████████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ █████ ████████ ██████ ████ ████ █████ █████████ █████

e

At one time ███ ██ ███████████ ██████████ ██████ ██████ ██ ███ █████████ ████ ██████████ ████ ██ █████████ █████ ███ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ██████████ ████████████ ██ ███ █████

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