PT155.S2.Q2

PrepTest 155 - Section 2 - Question 2

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Javier: Support Government workers are paid higher hourly wages than comparable private sector employees. ██ ███ ██████████ █████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████████ ██████████

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Speaker 1 Summary

Javier concludes that the government could save money by hiring private contractors to replace government employees. This is because government workers earn more per hour than comparative private sector employees.

Speaker 2 Summary

Mykayla points out that, as shown by an analysis of government contracts, the government pays a lot more on average to hire contractors than it pays for government employees to do comparable things. Her implicit point is that the government probably wouldn’t save money by replacing government workers with comparable private sector employees.

Objective

We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether the government could save money by hiring private contractors to perform services now performed by government employees.

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Javier and Mykayla disagree with ████ █████ ████ ███████

a

the government could ██████ ████████ ██ ████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████████ ██ ███ ███████

b

the government would ████ █████ ██ ██ █████ ███████ ███████████ ██ ███████ ████████ ███ █████████ ██ ██████████ █████████

c

government workers generally ███ ████ ██████ ██████ █████ ████ ██████████ ███████ ██████ ███████

d

every service that ██ █████████ █████████ ██ ██████████ █████████ █████ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ███████████

e

the total amount ██ █████ ████ ███ ██████████ ████ ███ █████████ ████████ ██ ███████ ████ ███ █████ ██████ ████ ██ ██████ ██ ███████████ ████████

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