PT114.S4.Q4

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PrepTest 114 - Section 4 - Question 4

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The government-owned gas company has begun selling stoves and other gas appliances to create a larger market for its gas. █████████ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ████ ████ █████ ███████████ ████ ███ ████ ███ ████████ ███ ████████████████ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ███ █████ ██ █ ███████ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ████ ██████████ ███ ██████ █████ █████ ██ ███████ █████ ████ █████

Summary

It would be alright if a private gas company started selling stoves and similar gas appliances. It is therefore alright that the government-owned gas company started selling stoves and similar gas appliances.

Notable Assumptions

This argument draws a conclusion about what’s okay for government-owned businesses based on a claim that it would be appropriate for a private business, but doesn’t provide any explicit statement telling us that whatever is okay for a private business is also okay for a government-owned business. There’s instead only an assumption that the government-owned business doesn’t have to meet different standards from a private business. We’re looking for some principle that satisfies this assumption, and provides a connection between what is alright for a private business and what is alright for a government-owned business.

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Which one of the following ███████████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ ███ █████████ ██████

Government-owned companies have ███ █████ ██ ██ ████████ ███████ ██████████ ████ ███ █████ ██ ███

This justifies how the argument get to its conclusion - if government-owned businesses can do whatever private businesses can do, and private businesses could sell stoves, then of course government owned businesses could sell stoves.

A government should ██████ ████ █████████ ███ ██████████ ██ ██████████

Leads to the wrong conclusion. The argument is suggesting that the government shouldn’t worry about the complaints of merchants, because it’s alright for the government-owned business to be selling stoves.

Private businesses have ██ █████ ██ ███████ ████ ██████████ ███████████

Wrong trigger. The argument is suggesting that government monopolies do have a right to compete with private businesses - this answer choice provides the opposite.

There is nothing █████ ████ █ ████████████████ ███████ ███████ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████ █████████ ██ ███ █████████

Wrong trigger. In this case, the argument states that the owners of private companies are complaining.

There is nothing █████ ████ ███████ █████████ █████████ ███████ ████ ██████

Wrong trigger. This argument is about whether a government-onwed business can compete with private companies, not about competition between private companies.

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97% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

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25% 120

123

75% 134

Analysis

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PSA - find the rule

Stems that tell us there will be an argument or judgment in the stimulus, and ask us which answer choice provides a rule or principle that supports that argument or judgment.

Stimulus Tags

Rule-application

Stimuli that involve the application of a general rule to specific scenarios.

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