| Critical Reasoning Butler: December 2025 |
| December 12 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 Doctors must be given more comprehensive protection against malpractice claims. Such protection would encourage research hospitals to try innovative new treatments, which often lead to valuable breakthroughs in medical science.
Which of the following conclusions can most properly be drawn from the information above?
A. Stronger protections against claims of malpractice tend to benefit healthcare providers as well as research hospitals.
B. Breakthroughs in medical science are likely to be accompanied by the creation of more jobs in medical research.
C. Research hospitals will try innovative new treatments less frequently unless there are stronger protections against claims of malpractice.
D. Stronger protections against claims of malpractice would stimulate breakthroughs in the field of medical science.
E. The weakness of the current protections against malpractice claims has been a cause of stagnation in medical science.
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CR 2 Due to recent success, Lawton, a contractor, can be more selective than in the past regarding the types of clients he chooses to service. If he restricts his business to commercial clients and only those residential clients requiring $10,000 of work or more, he would cease doing most of the kind of residential work he currently does, which would allow him to earn a higher average profit margin per job.
Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the conclusion that limiting his service in the manner cited would increase Lawton’s average profit margin per job?
A. Lawton’s recent success is due primarily to an upsurge in the number of residential clients he services.
B. Lawton’s commercial clients would prefer that he focus more of his time and energy on their projects and less on the concerns of his residential clients.
C. Residential work for which Lawton cannot bill more than $10,000 comprises a significant proportion of his low-profit-margin work.
D. Due to the use of a more efficient cost-accounting system, Lawton’s average profit margin per job has increased in each of the last three years.
E. Commercial jobs typically take longer to complete than residential jobs.