PT23.S1.Q19

PrepTest 23 - Section 1 - Question 19

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Some cleaning fluids, synthetic carpets, wall paneling, and other products release toxins, such as formaldehyde and benzene, into the household air supply. ████ ██ ███ █ ███████ ██ ███████████████ ███████ ███ ██ ██ █ ███████ ██ ██████ ████ ███ ██ ████ █████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ ████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████ ████████ ███████████ ████ ███████████ ██████ ████ █████████ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ███ ███████ █████████ █████ ███████ ██ ███ █████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████████ ████████████ ████ █ ██████ ██████████████ ██████

Stimulus Breakdown

The stimulus starts by telling us that some products found in houses release toxins into the household air supply. While this isn't an issue if a house is well-ventilated, it is a problem if a house is well-insulated enough to trap these toxins along with heat. The stimulus then mentions some studies showing that houseplants can remove some of these toxins from the air, and cites one study where 20 large houseplants removed all the formaldehyde from a small, well-insulated house.

Analysis and Strategy

Like the previous question, this question is also a Most Strongly Supported-type question. But where the previous question asked us to identify a potential result of the processes described by the stimulus, this one asks us to identify a conclusion that takes the statements within the stimulus as its premises.

Those are different questions, but our approach is the same. This stimulus doesn't really provide openings for logical inferences, so it's best to go straight to the answer choices and proceed by process of elimination.

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19.

The passage is structured to ████ ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ████████████

a

Houseplants can remove ███████ ████ ███ ████

b

Nonsynthetic products do ███ ███████ ██████ ████ ███████

c

Keeping houseplants is ██ █████████ █████ ██ ████████ ████ ██ █ ██████ █████████ ██████

d

Keeping houseplants can ██████████ ███ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ ████ ████████████

e

The air in █ ██████████████ █████ ████ ███████████ ████ ███████ █████ ██████ ████ ███ ███ ██ █ ███████████████ █████ ███████ ████████████

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