Critical Reasoning Butler: May 2025 |
May 21 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 The threatened prosecution of businesses flying 20-by-38-foot garrison flags, which are traditionally to be flown on national holidays, instead of the smaller post flags, which can be flown at any time, is unconscionable. Legal technicalities of this sort should never restrict patriotic expression.
Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the argument above?
(A) Many people find the garrison flags’ size to be distracting and ill suited to neighborhood aesthetics.
(B) The businesses that are flying garrison flags do so primarily to attract customers.
(C) The raising and lowering of different-sized flags on the correct days of the year is a laborious and time-consuming procedure.
(D) The regulations that govern the correct display of the nation’s flags are part of an old and time-honored tradition.
(E) The symbolic significance of a flag’s size is not generally understood by most of the customers patronizing these businesses.
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CR 2 A stain-removing agent currently available in City X can remove the most stubborn of stains from clothes but is not very popular because it leaves behind a foul smell in the clothes. It takes around 10 days for the smell to completely go away from the clothes. Another stainremoving agent has just been launched in City X which is as effective at cleaning stains as the older one. An advantage of the new stain-removing agent is that its smell starts to go away from the clothes in two days itself. Thus this new agent should easily be able to outsell the older one.
Which of the following pieces of information would be most helpful in evaluating the argument above?
(A) The rate of growth or decline in sales of stain-removing agents in city X
(B) The total number of stain removing agents sold last year in city X
(C) The per capita income of people residing in city X
(D) The amount of time it takes for the smell of the new stain-removing agent to completely go away from the clothes.
(E) A comparison of the smell of the new stain removing agent with that of similar agents available in other cities