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Support The mayoral race in Bensburg is a choice between Chu, a prodevelopment candidate, and Lewis, who favors placing greater limits on development. ██████████████ ██████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ██████████ █████ ███ ████ ████████ ██████ ██████
Summarize Argument
The author concludes that Chu will probably defeat Lewis in the mayoral race. This is based on the fact that prodevelopment candidates have won the last six mayoral elections, and Chu, unlike Lewis, is a prodevelopment candidate.
Notable Assumptions
The author assumes that the reasons that led to prodevelopment candidates winning in the past continue to apply to the race between Chu and Lewis. The author assumes that people won’t choose to support anti-development candidates in the upcoming election.
1.
Which one of the following ███████████ ██ █████ ████ ███████ ███ █████████
a
Lewis has extensive ██████████ ██ ████████ █████████ ███ ███ ██ ████ █████████
This is a negative aspect of Lewis. This doesn’t help suggest that he will probably win over Chu.
b
Prodevelopment mayoral candidates ██ ████████ █████████ ███████ ████ █████████ ███████ ███ █████ ██████████
This might help explain why prodevelopment candidates have won. But this doesn’t suggest that the same reason won’t apply to this race.
c
Bensburg is facing ███████ ███ ████████ ████ ████ ██████ █████████ ██ ████████████████
This suggests that voters might not be as attracted to prodevelopment candidates during this election as they had been during past election.
d
Lewis once worked ██ ██ ████ ██ █ ██████████████ █████ ██ █████████
The premises tell us that Lewis favors placing limits on development. His past experience doesn’t change the fact that he is not a prodevelopment candidate.
e
Chu was not ███████ ██ ██ █ ██████████████ ██████████ ██████ ████ █████████
Regardless of what people knew of him before, the premises tell us that Chu is a prodevelopment candidate. (E) isn’t suggesting that voters don’t know Chu is prodevelopment.