Self-study
If the public library shared by the adjacent towns of Redville and Glenwood were relocated from the library’s current, overcrowded building in central Redville to a larger, available building in central Glenwood, the library would then be within walking distance of a larger number of library users. ████ ██ ███████ █████ ███ ████ ████ ██████ ██████ ██ ███████ ████████ ████ ██ ███████ █████████ ███ ██████ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ██ ██ ███████ █████ ██ █████ ██████
Argument Structure
The stimulus opens with a conditional claim that is the argument's conclusion: if the library were moved from central Redville to central Glenwood, it would be within walking distance of a larger number of library users. The stimulus then offers the premises for that conclusion: first, more people live in central Glenwood than central Redville, and second, people usually walk to the library only if it is close to their homes.
Notable Assumptions
The premises state that more people live in central Glenwood than in central Redville, while the conclusion assumes that more library users live in central Glenwood than in central Redville, and will thus be within walking distance if the library is moved to Glenwood. This doesn't have to be true. For whatever reason, even though central Redville has a smaller overall population, it might have many more library users than central Glenwood does.
You might think, based on the second premise, that having a library within walking distance will turn some of Glenwood's inhabitants into library users. But even if that were true, it wouldn't be clear that Glenwood would therefore have more library users than Redville currently does. So a good way of weakening the argument would be to undermine this assumption that having a larger population necessarily means having more library users.
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