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As living standards continue to improve world wide, the demand for plastic products will inevitably increase. As demand for plastic products increases, United States petrochemical companies, most of which are located along the Gulf Coast, will increase production of the petrochemicals from which plastics are made. Yet economists predict that, even as these companies increase production, the currently high rate of unemployment in communities along the Gulf Coast is unlikely to decline.
Which of the following, if true, would offer the greatest support for the economists’ prediction?
(A) Falling oil revenues have forced oil producing nations in the Middle East to scale back plans to expand their petrochemical industries.
(B) Competition among Gulf Coast petrochemical products.
(C) Foreign markets are dependent on United States petrochemicals shipped from Gulf Coast ports.
(D) The highly automated petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast can be operated by only a few people.
(E) Past increases in domestic demand for plastic products made by United States companies have promoted petrochemical companies along the Gulf Coast to expand their plants and hire additional workers.
Which of the following, if true, would offer the greatest support for the economists’ prediction?
(A) Falling oil revenues have forced oil producing nations in the Middle East to scale back plans to expand their petrochemical industries.
(B) Competition among Gulf Coast petrochemical products.
(C) Foreign markets are dependent on United States petrochemicals shipped from Gulf Coast ports.
(D) The highly automated petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast can be operated by only a few people.
(E) Past increases in domestic demand for plastic products made by United States companies have promoted petrochemical companies along the Gulf Coast to expand their plants and hire additional workers.
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Question type: Strengthen the Argument
Premise: Increase in demand for plastic product will increase the production of X, which are produced by companies located in gulf coast.
Conclusion: Still, Unemployment rate in gulf coast is unlikely to decline.
What might be the reason that despite the increase in work opportunity, the unemployment rate is likely to remain same in the gulf coast?
Possible reasons:
1. what if very few people is required to handle the demand?
2. what if the companies only hire people from US or other foreign countries?
3. what if jobs in other sectors are drying up and the number of people being unemployed is rising everday?
Option D provides a reason why the unemployment rate is unlikely to decline. This statement has a clear impact on the conclusion and therefore will strengthen the argument.
Premise: Increase in demand for plastic product will increase the production of X, which are produced by companies located in gulf coast.
Conclusion: Still, Unemployment rate in gulf coast is unlikely to decline.
What might be the reason that despite the increase in work opportunity, the unemployment rate is likely to remain same in the gulf coast?
Possible reasons:
1. what if very few people is required to handle the demand?
2. what if the companies only hire people from US or other foreign countries?
3. what if jobs in other sectors are drying up and the number of people being unemployed is rising everday?
Option D provides a reason why the unemployment rate is unlikely to decline. This statement has a clear impact on the conclusion and therefore will strengthen the argument.
