PT101.S3.Q22

PrepTest 101 - Section 3 - Question 22

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Letter to the editor: After Baerton's factory closed, there was a sharp increase in the number of claims filed for job-related injury compensation by the factory's former employees. █████ █████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████ ████ ████ ██ █████ ███ █████ ███ ████████████ █████ ███ ███████ ██████ ████ ████ ███ ██ ████ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ████████ ███ █████ ████ ██ ████ ████ ███████ █████ ███ █████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that the factory’s former employees filed for workplace injury benefits to help weather unemployment, rather than for legitimate injury-related reasons. To support this stance, the author points to a sharp increase in injury claims after the factory closed, compared to while the factory was open.

Notable Assumptions

Based on a correlation between injury claims and employment status, the author concludes that the latter is causing the former. To get to that conclusion, the author assumes that former employees didn't have previous injuries they withheld making claims for until after their employment came to an end. And the author assumes that nothing happened shortly before the factory closed that would’ve caused a legitimate increase in injury claims.

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22.

Each of the following, if █████ ███████ ███ ████████ █████ ███████

a

Workers cannot file ███ ████████████ ███ ████ ███████████ █████████ ████ ██ ███████ ████ ████ ███████ ██████ █████ ████ ████ ████ ███ ████

b

In the years ██████ ███ ███████ ███████ ███ █████████ ████████ █████████ ███████ █████████ ███ ███ █████ ██████ ███████

c

Most workers who ███████ ██ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ███ ████████████ ██ ███ ███ ████ ██████ ███ ███████

d

Workers who incur ███████ ████████████ ███ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███ █████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████████████ ███████ ████ █████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ███████ ████████████ ███ ██████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ████████████ ██████

e

Workers who are █████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ████ █ ███ █████ ██████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ████ █████ ██ ███████████ █████████

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