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Chancellor of Mayfield Academy: Mayfield Academy must grow if it is to survive, so as we have agreed, efforts should be made to attract students in all grades K–12. The best strategy for attracting students is to build new facilities for athletics, computer science, and the arts, including a new auditorium. Parents demand that their children receive the very best facilities to explore their interests to the fullest. Also, as other schools are investing in similar facilities, we must keep up with the competition. Therefore, parents will move their kids to our school as our facilities match or surpass other institutions.
The argument leads to the conclusion that
(A) the Mayfield Academy should attract more students
(B) parents who want the best facilities for their children’s interests should choose Mayfield Academy
(C) parents should consider public as well as private institutions
(D) the Mayfield Academy should invest in new facilities
(E) parents who have children in public school should transfer them to Mayfield Academy
The argument leads to the conclusion that
(A) the Mayfield Academy should attract more students
(B) parents who want the best facilities for their children’s interests should choose Mayfield Academy
(C) parents should consider public as well as private institutions
(D) the Mayfield Academy should invest in new facilities
(E) parents who have children in public school should transfer them to Mayfield Academy
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Answer: D
STEP 1: Read the question and identify your task.
This is a Conclusion question. It is asking you to find among the answers a logical conclusion that can be reached as a result of the chancellor’s argument.
STEP 2: Read the argument with your task in mind.
Thus, you read the chancellor’s statement with the expectation that it will lead you to an inevitable conclusion or assumption. Put simply, the chancellor argues that the school needs to invest in new facilities in order to attract new students and beat out the competition.
STEP 3: Know what you’re looking for.
The correct answer will sum up the argument. In this case, the chancellor argues that Mayfield Academy must grow to survive, and building new facilities is a way to generate that growth, so you must look for a conclusion that the Mayfield Academy must invest in new facilities in order to grow.
STEP 4: Read every word of every answer choice.
Answer A seems like it might work, but it only mentions attracting more students and not how that should be achieved. Answer B seems like something parents might say when or if the school actually agrees and executes the specifics of the chancellor’s recommendation, but this is not exactly a conclusion you can take from the argument. Answer C discusses a consideration of the parents and something unrelated to the school’s need to attract more students. Answer D states that the academy should invest in new facilities, a conclusion that the school might very well come to based on the chancellor’s argument. This seems like your answer, but you should review the final answer to be sure. Similar to answer A, answer E states what the school would like to be the inevitable decision parents make, to move their children to Mayfield, but it does not discuss how the Mayfield Academy can achieve that result, which is the subject of the argument. The correct choice is answer D.
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