Self-study
City leader: If our city adopts the new tourism plan, the amount of money that tourists spend here annually will increase by at least $2 billion, creating as many jobs as a new automobile manufacturing plant would. ██ █████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ █████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ █████████ ██ ████████ ██ ██████████ ████████████ ██ █████ █ █████ █████ ███ ████████ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ████ █████
Summary
City leader: If we adopt the new tourism plan, tourists will spend at least $2 billion more each year here, creating as many jobs as a new car manufacturing plant would. It would be reasonable to spend money to attract a car manufacturing plant, but the tourism plan would cost less.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
When determining the reasonableness of implementing something that would create job growth for the city, cost is an important factor.
Adopting the new tourism plan would be reasonable.
Adopting the new tourism plan would be economically beneficial for the city.
17.
The city leader's statements, if █████ ███████ ███ ████ ███████ ███ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████
a
The city should █████████ ███ █████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ██████████
Unsupported. We don’t know which measures should be implemented or even which measures are the least expensive. We only know that attracting a car manufacturing plant would be reasonable and that the tourism plan is cheaper than attracting the plant.
b
In general, it ██ ██████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ █████ █████ ██ ███ ██ ████████ █████████████ █████████ ██ █████ ██████ ██ ███ █████
Unsupported. The stimulus tells us that it would be reasonable for the city to spend the money necessary to convince an automobile manufacturer to build a plant, but it does not discuss the reasonableness of attracting manufacturing companies in general.
c
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Unsupported. We are not told how much money the city has or whether it can afford to attract a car manufacturer and implement the new tourism plan. We simply don’t know.
d
It would be ██████████ ███ ███ ████ ██ █████ ███ ███ ███████ █████
Strongly supported. The new tourism plan would create as many jobs as a new car factory. Since it would be reasonable for the city to spend money on attracting a car factory, and the tourism plan costs less, it would also be reasonable for the city to adopt the tourism plan.
e
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Anti-supported. The stimulus explicitly states that a new car manufacturing plant would create as many jobs as increased tourism. So increasing tourism is not the only way that the city can create jobs.