PT107.S4.Q13

PrepTest 107 - Section 4 - Question 13

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Plant manager: We could greatly reduce the amount of sulfur dioxide our copper-smelting plant releases into the atmosphere by using a new process. ███ ███ ███████ ████████ █████████ ███ ████ ████████ ████ ██████ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ██████ ████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████ █████ ████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ███ █████████ █████████ ██ ███ ███ ████████ ███ ███ ███ ███████ ████ █████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███████ ███ ██████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ████████ ███ ███ ███████ ████ ████ ████ ███ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ███████

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Speaker 1 Summary

The plant manager says that switching to a new copper-smelting process would be expensive and unprofitable. How do we know? First, the new equipment is expensive. Second, the new process costs more to run. This second point is supported by an explanation that the new process requires cooling then reheating copper (making it a sub-conclusion).

Speaker 2 Summary

The supervisor disagrees with the plant manager that the new process has higher running costs. This isn’t explicitly stated, but is implied by the support the supervisor gives: the new process is very fuel-efficient. We can infer that this supports a disagreement about the running cost because it would allow savings on fuel.

Objective

We need to find a point of disagreement. This is the claim that the new process costs more to run: the plant manager agrees, but the supervisor implicitly disagrees.

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13.

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a

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b

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c

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d

whether closed copper-smelting ████████ ███ ████ ██████████████ ████ ████ ████████

e

whether cooling and █████████ ███ ██████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ██████ ████

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