PT119.S4.Q2

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PrepTest 119 - Section 4 - Question 2

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Advertisement: Support The pride the people at Austin Stables take in their work accounts for their success in producing more winning racehorses than any other stable. ████ █ █████████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ████ █████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ███████████ ██ ██ ████ █████ ███████ ████ ████████████ ███████ ██████ ███ ███ ████ ██ ████ █████ ███████ ██ ███████ ████ ███████ ███████████ ████ ███ ████████████

Summarize Argument

The advertisement concludes that Barr Motor Company produces more winning automobiles than its competitors do. This is supported by a claimed analogy: that Barr Motor Company demonstrates similar pride to that displayed by Austin Stables. And apparently, Austin Stables’ pride is responsible for Austin Stables producing more winning racehorses than their own competitors.

Describe Method of Reasoning

The advertisement draws an analogy between two cases which possess the same quality of pride. Because this quality is responsible for a certain outcome in one case, the outcome is said to be similar in the other case. In other words, because Barr Motor Company displays similar pride to Austin Stables, Barr Motor Company—by analogy to Austin Stables—will also have similar success over its competition.

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The advertisement proceeds by

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The advertisement does not mention repeat customers, only claiming that Barr Motor Company will produce better products than their competitors.

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The advertisement uses an analogy between Austin Stables and Barr Motor Company to conclude that Barr Motor Company is superior to its competitors in a way analogous to Austin Stables’ superiority over its competitors.

proving that Barr █████ ███████ ███ █ █████████████ █████████ ██ █████

The advertisement doesn’t function to prove Barr Motor Company’s long-standing tradition of pride. Rather, Barr’s pride is a premise that supports drawing an analogy between Barr Motor Company and Austin Stables.

understating the role ████ █████ █████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ██████ ███████

The advertisement doesn’t understate the role of pride in accounting for the success of Austin Stables, instead claiming that pride truly does account for that success.

asserting that Barr █████ ███████ ███ ██ █████ █████████ ██ █████ ████ ████ ██████ ███████

The advertisement doesn’t make any claims about how old the tradition of pride at Austin Stables is.

Difficulty

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93% of people who answer get this correct

This is a low-difficulty question.

CURVE

Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 120

131

75% 143

Analysis

Question Stem Tags

Method of reasoning or descriptive

Stems that ask us to articulate, in abstract terms, the structure of the argument in the stimulus.

Stimulus Tags

Analogy

Stimuli that feature arguments by analogy, where the success or failure of that analogy informs the answer choices.

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