This region must find new ways to help business grow. After all, shoe

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This region must find new ways to help business grow. After all, shoe manufacturing used to be a major local industry, but recently has experienced severe setbacks due to overseas competition, so there is a need for expansion into new manufacturing areas.Moreover, our outdated public policy generally inhibits business growth.

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion drawn in the argument?

(A) The region needs to find new ways to enhance business growth.
(B) Shoe manufacturing is no longer a major source of income in the region.
(C) Shoe manufacturing in the region has dramatically declined due to overseas competition.
(D) Business in the region must expand into new areas of manufacturing.
(E) Outdated public policy inhibits business growth in the region.

himanshurajawat · Answer

Why is 'A' preferred over 'E'?

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nightblade354 · Answer

use the "because-therefore" test.

This region must find new ways to help business grow.  After all, shoe manufacturing used to be a major local industry, but recently has experienced severe setbacks due to overseas competition, so there is a need for expansion into new manufacturing areas. Moreover, our outdated public policy generally inhibits business growth.

1. Because this region must find new ways to help business grow, therefore our outdated public policy generally inhibits business growth.
2. Because our outdated public policy generally inhibits business growth, therefore This region must find new ways to help business grow

Two is clearly the right answer here. As such, the "therefore" is the main conclusion, which makes it (A)

Which one of the following most accurately expresses the main conclusion drawn in the argument?

(A) The region needs to find new ways to enhance business growth.
(E) Outdated public policy inhibits business growth in the region.

prateekchugh · Answer

KAPLAN Official Explanation

(A) Main Point
The author’s conclusion can appear anywhere in the
argument.
While reading this argument, you may have been struck
by how definitive and “conclusion”-like the first
sentence sounded. Here, the author states the
conclusion right up front: the region has to find new
ways to help out its businesses. A quick look at
keywords tells us that everything else is evidence. The
second sentence begins with “after all” and the third
sentence begins with “moreover,” both of which
indicate that the author is using those pieces of info to
back up the conclusion. (A) restates the first sentence,
almost verbatim.
(B) This is an implication of the argument, but the
author’s main point has nothing to do with shoe
manufacturing specifically.
(C), (D), and (E) all simply restate pieces of evidence
in the argument. While it is true that all three of these
do appear in the argument, they are used to support
the author’s contention that the region needs to find
other means of supporting businesses. None of these
choices is the conclusion itself.

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