PT155.S1.Q7 > Question

SECTION 1 · lr

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7 Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15 Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22 Question 23 Question 24 Question 25

SECTION 2 · lr

SECTION 3 · rc

PASSAGE 1

Question 1 Question 2 Question 3 Question 4 Question 5 Question 6 Question 7

PASSAGE 2

Question 8 Question 9 Question 10 Question 11 Question 12 Question 13 Question 14 Question 15

PASSAGE 3

Question 16 Question 17 Question 18 Question 19 Question 20 Question 21 Question 22

PASSAGE 4

Question 23 Question 24 Question 25 Question 26 Question 27

SECTION 4 · lr

The transportation official concludes that studded snow tires, rather than large trucks, cause the ruts in the city’s roads. She supports this by saying that many other places have just as much large truck traffic and snowfall as her city, but only those that allow studded snow tires have similar ruts in their roads.

The transportation official assumes that other factors, such as the presence of large trucks, are not also contributing to the ruts. She blames only studded snow tires without considering that they might be causing the ruts in conjunction with some other factor.

We don’t know if “many areas” includes the transportation official’s city or any of the other cities that she references. Because of this, (A) is too vague to strengthen her conclusion.

This weakens the argument by pointing out another factor that could be contributing to the ruts in the roads. If the ruts decrease as large truck traffic decreases, it’s more likely that large trucks also contributes to the ruts in the roads.

This strengthens the argument by eliminating another possible cause of the ruts. If places with studded snow tires but negligible large truck traffic also have similar ruts in the roads, then the large truck traffic is likely not contributing to the ruts.

The transportation official’s argument blames studded snow tires for the ruts, and we don’t know whether the cities mentioned in (D) also have studded snow tires. Thus, (D) is irrelevant.

Irrelevant— the transportation official’s argument only addresses those places that do allow the use of studded snow tires and the effects of those tires on the roads.

PrepTest 155 - Section 1 - Question 7

Difficulty

Analysis

Answer Popularity

Question history

Confirm action