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As we can see from the question stem, the stimulus is not an argument, but a claim. All the wrong answer choices will act as premises, offering us evidence to believe the claim is true. The right answer choice will have either a weakening effect on the claim, or no effect at all.

This strengthens the argument. It provides a reason for why midlevel managers don’t want a smaller team—they would get paid less!

This strengthens the argument. It provides a reason for why midlevel managers don’t want a smaller team—the managers would have more work to do.

This strengthens the argument. It provides a reason for why midlevel managers don’t want a smaller team—staff morale and productivity would decline.

This strengthens the argument. It provides a reason for why midlevel managers don’t want a smaller team—they are wary of the workload increasing suddenly and having too few unemployees.

This does not affect the argument. The fact that managers may be able to offer staff early retirement to reduce staff does not affect the assertion that they are nevertheless unlikely to suggest a reduction in staff.

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