A brochure for City X highlights the reasons why residents should move

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A brochure for City X highlights the reasons why residents should move there rather than to other cities in the state. One reason that the brochure mentions is the relative ease of finding a job in City X, where the unemployment rate is 4.7%.

Which of the following statements, if true, casts the most doubt on the validity of the reason to move to City X mentioned above?

A. Most of the jobs in City X are hourly rather than salary jobs.

B. The state where City X is located has an average unemployment rate of 3.9%.

C. CD Other reasons to move to City X include the school system and easy access to recreational activities.

D. The national unemployment rate, calculated during the last census, is 4.3%.

E. City Y, located in the same state as City X, recently built a new factory that will employ 5,000 workers.

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Dereno · Answer

B  casts the most doubt on the validity of reason because it shows that City X’s unemployment rate (4.7%) is higher than the state’s average of 3.9%, suggesting it might be harder to find a job there compared to other cities in the state.

This directly challenges the brochure’s claim that finding a job in City X is easy. Thus, weakens the statement that’s it’s easy to find job in city X.

samarpan.g28 · Answer

Mathematically if we see, the  average  unemp rate of the state is 3.9, and the  total  unemp rate of city X is 4.7. This suggests there have to be other cities in the state whose unemp rates are even lower than that of city X, which is why the  average  unemp rate of the state has decreased.

Since the argument highlights the unemp rate of city X as an advantage to move there, and we are directly weakening this through option B, this is the correct answer.

Bunuel · Answer

Kaplan Official Explanation:

B

The conclusion here is that people should move to City X rather than other cities in the state; City X has a 4.7% unemployment rate, and that makes it relatively easy to find a job there. This is only true if unemployment rates are higher elsewhere. In other words, the assumption is that 4.7% is a low unemployment rate relative to other cities in the state.

We're looking for the statement that weakens this assumption. (B) says that the state has an average unemployment rate of 3.9%, which is lower than that of City X. So, compared to the rest of the state, City X has a higher unemployment rate, which weakens the argument that people should move to City X to take advantage of its low unemployment rate. The exact types of jobs (salary or hourly) available in City X are not part of the argument, so (A) is out of scope. Similarly, other possible reasons to move to City X, such as schools and recreation, are also not at issue, so (C) is incorrect.

(D) cites the national unemployment rate, something out of scope. And (E) is neither mentioned nor relevant to the issue of whether City X's unemployment rate is in fact low.

A brochure for City X highlights the reasons why residents should move

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