PT149.S1.Q1

PrepTest 149 - Section 1 - Question 1

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Support The mayoral race in Bensburg is a choice between Chu, a prodevelopment candidate, and Lewis, who favors placing greater limits on development. ██████████████ ██████████ ████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███████ ██████████ █████ ███ ████ ████████ ██████ ██████

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The author concludes that Chu will probably defeat Lewis in the mayoral race. This is based on the fact that prodevelopment candidates have won the last six mayoral elections, and Chu, unlike Lewis, is a prodevelopment candidate.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that the reasons that led to prodevelopment candidates winning in the past continue to apply to the race between Chu and Lewis. The author assumes that people won’t choose to support anti-development candidates in the upcoming election.

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a

Lewis has extensive ██████████ ██ ████████ █████████ ███ ███ ██ ████ █████████

b

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c

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d

Lewis once worked ██ ██ ████ ██ █ ██████████████ █████ ██ █████████

e

Chu was not ███████ ██ ██ █ ██████████████ ██████████ ██████ ████ █████████

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