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Governor: Over the past decade, the state has cut manufacturing subsidies every two years, and each time manufacturing firms complained that the cuts would force them to reduce essential expenditures. However, each time, only non-essential expenditures were actually reduced. So, the manufacturing firms can implement further cuts without reducing any essential expenditures.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the governor’s conclusion?
A. The state’s manufacturing firms have always managed their essential expenditures as efficiently as they have managed their nonessential expenditures.
B. Only rarely do the state’s manufacturing firms overstate the potential impact of the threatened subsidy cuts.
C. Price estimates quoted to the state’s manufacturing firms for non-essential expenditures have not increased substantially since the most recent subsidy cut.
D. Few state officials support the provision of subsidies that will allow manufacturing firms to maintain expensive non-essential expenditures.
E. The subsidies currently provided to the state’s manufacturing firms allow them to maintain some non-essential expenditures.
Which of the following, if true, most strongly supports the governor’s conclusion?
A. The state’s manufacturing firms have always managed their essential expenditures as efficiently as they have managed their nonessential expenditures.
B. Only rarely do the state’s manufacturing firms overstate the potential impact of the threatened subsidy cuts.
C. Price estimates quoted to the state’s manufacturing firms for non-essential expenditures have not increased substantially since the most recent subsidy cut.
D. Few state officials support the provision of subsidies that will allow manufacturing firms to maintain expensive non-essential expenditures.
E. The subsidies currently provided to the state’s manufacturing firms allow them to maintain some non-essential expenditures.
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Experts' Global Official Explanation
Mind-map: State cuts manufacturing subsidies --> manufacturing firms complain they have to reduce essential expenditures --> in past, firms reduced only non-essential expenditures --> firms can implement further cuts without reducing essential expenditures (conclusion)
Missing-link: Between the firms reducing only non-essential expenditures in the past and the conclusion that the firms can implement further cuts without reducing essential expenditures
Expectation from the correct answer choice: To strengthen the conclusion that the firms can implement further cuts without reducing essential expenditures
A. The argument is concerned with whether the manufacturing firms can implement further cuts without reducing essential expenditures, as they did in the past; so, the efficiency of managing the expenditure is out of scope. Because this answer choice does not strengthen the conclusion, this answer choice is incorrect.
B. This answer choice, suggesting that manufacturing firms’ assessment of the subsidy cuts’ impact is rarely overstated, indicates that the firms are not likely to exaggerate the impact of further subsidy cuts but fails to provide any information regarding whether the firms can further reduce non-essential expenditures; so, this answer choice is just additional information and has no bearing on the argument. Because this answer choice does not strengthen the conclusion, this answer choice is incorrect.
C. Trap. That the price estimates for non-essential expenditures have remained the same provides no information regarding whether the firms can further reduce non-essential expenditure; so, this answer choice simply adds information, which, although relevant to the broad context of the argument, has no bearing on the reasoning or its conclusion. Because this answer choice does not strengthen the conclusion, this answer choice is incorrect.
D. By suggesting that few officials support providing subsidies enough to maintain “expensive” expenditures, this answer choice indicates that a reduction in subsidies is likely but fails to provide any information regarding whether the firms can further reduce non-essential expenditures; so, this answer choice is just additional information and has no bearing on the argument. Because this answer choice does not strengthen the conclusion, this answer choice is incorrect.
E. Correct. This answer choice, suggesting that the manufacturing firms currently have some more room to reduce non-essential expenditures, indicates the possibility of further cuts in subsidies being absorbed by non-essential expenditures as in the past; such an indication strengthens the conclusion that the firms can implement further cuts without reducing essential expenditures. Because this answer choice strengthens the conclusion, this answer choice is correct.
E is the best choice.
General Discussion
01 Jan 2022, 03:32
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Conclusion:the manufacturing firms can implement further cuts without reducing any essential expenditures.
We need to strengthen this conclusion.
A. The state’s manufacturing firms have always managed their essential expenditures as efficiently as they have managed their nonessential expenditures.
But what if there is no fund to manage non-essential expenditures.
B. Only rarely do the state’s manufacturing firms overstate the potential impact of the threatened subsidy cuts.
If this is the case then further subsidy cuts will result force them to reduce expenditure to the essential expenditure exactly opposite to what we are looking for.
C. Price estimates quoted to the state’s manufacturing firms for non-essential expenditures have not increased substantially since the most recent subsidy cut.
Which means that there are sufficient non essential funds or non -essential funds have been low for a while now. No conclusive answer can be drawn from this.
D. Few state officials support the provision of subsidies that will allow manufacturing firms to maintain expensive non-essential expenditures.
This information is irrelevant.
E. The subsidies currently provided to the state’s manufacturing firms allow them to maintain some non-essential expenditures.
If this is true then it makes us believe more in the conclusion.
