PT149.S3.Q16

PrepTest 149 - Section 3 - Question 16

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The tax bill passed 2 years ago provides substantial incentives for businesses that move to this area and hire 50 or more employees. ███████ ███ ███ ████ ███████ ███ ████████████ ███ █████████ ███ ███████ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ████ █████ ████ █████ ██████████ █████████ ███ ██████████ █████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ █ ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ████ █████ ██ ██████████

Summary

This tax bill has created new jobs, because a plastics factory was opened that hired 75 new employees.

Notable Assumptions

The author is saying that the tax bill has created new jobs, and citing an instance where new jobs were created. But we don’t know that these new jobs were created due to the tax bill or not. We need to know that the tax bill was the reason that the plastic factory was opened.

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16.

The argument's reasoning depends on █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████████████

a

If Plastonica had ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ███ ████ ██████ █ ████████ ███████ ██ ████

b

Plastonica would not ████ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ██ ███ ████ ███ ███ ███████████

c

Most critics of ███ ███ ████ █████ ████ ██ ████ ███ ██████ ███ ████ ███ █████

d

If Plastonica had ███ ██████ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ████ ██████ ██ █████████ █████

e

Critics of the ███ ████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ███ ███████ ███ ████ ██ ███ █████

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