PT151.S4.Q7

PrepTest 151 - Section 4 - Question 7

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Summarize Argument

The author concludes that increasing productivity in the economy as a whole may help business owners, but it will increase unemployment. She supports this by saying that increasing productivity in a corporation means increasing profit, which often means reducing the number of employees in that corporation.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is the cookie-cutter part to whole flaw, where the argument assumes that what is true of a part of something is also true about the whole. Here, the author assumes that increasing productivity in the whole economy will lead to more unemployment, simply because increasing productivity in a single corporation can reduce the number of employees there.

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a

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b

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c

unfairly criticizes politicians ██ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █ ███ ███ ███ █████████ ██ ████████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████████████

d

fails to justify ███ ███████████ ████ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████████████ ██ ███ ███████ ██ █ █████ ██ ██████ ████ █████████ ████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ████████ ██████

e

fails to address ███ █████████ █████████ ███ ████████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████████████ ██ █ ██████ ███████████

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