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11 Sep 2025, 00:43
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Be sure to select an answer first to save it in the Error Log before revealing the correct answer (OA)!
Difficulty:
85%
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Question Stats:
56% (02:26) correct
44%
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Social worker: Typically, physicians in the United States who promote specialized services do not charge as much as do physicians who do not promote their services at all. Every time physicians are allowed to promote without restriction, the number of physicians promoting their specialty service has gone up, and patients have paid less for these consultations. Recent changes in regulations of such promotions have lifted the requirement that the amount charged for a consultation appear on the promotion. An effect of this change will be that physicians will no longer be inclined to reduce their fees when they start to promote, and many physicians who promote their services will increase their charges to patients.
In the above argument, the two parts in boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first makes a general claim that the social worker takes to be the truth; the second is proposed as an outcome resulting from the general claim’s truth.
B. The first supplies an action and a consequence that the social worker argues will be replicated; the second recognizes a situation that would cause the action and consequence to fall apart.
C. The first supplies an action and a consequence that the social worker perceives will no longer hold true; the second gives an explanation to support that perception.
D. The first provides clarification that the social worker presents in advocacy of a prediction; the second is that prediction.
E. The first recognizes a perspective that opposes the point that the social worker advocates; the second is that point.
In the above argument, the two parts in boldface play which of the following roles?
A. The first makes a general claim that the social worker takes to be the truth; the second is proposed as an outcome resulting from the general claim’s truth.
B. The first supplies an action and a consequence that the social worker argues will be replicated; the second recognizes a situation that would cause the action and consequence to fall apart.
C. The first supplies an action and a consequence that the social worker perceives will no longer hold true; the second gives an explanation to support that perception.
D. The first provides clarification that the social worker presents in advocacy of a prediction; the second is that prediction.
E. The first recognizes a perspective that opposes the point that the social worker advocates; the second is that point.
12 Sep 2025, 02:33
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Bunuel
OA is C. Let's solve this using an example and use it to clearly show why C is the right answer.
Simple Baker Example
Let’s imagine a town with two kinds of bakers:
- Promoting Bakers (they advertise their cakes)
- Non-Promoting Bakers (they don’t advertise)
Rule: If bakers advertise, they must include the price in the ad.
Over time, this happened:
- Promoting bakers want to attract customers.
- Since the price is visible, they keep prices low to compete.
- So promoting bakers usually charge less than non-promoting ones.
✅ This was the old pattern — a cause and effect:
- Action = promoting
- Consequence = lower prices
NEW CHANGE:
Now, a new rule is introduced:
- Bakers no longer have to show the price in their ads.
- Bakers know customers can’t compare prices easily.
- So now, they don’t feel pressure to lower prices when promoting.
- Some might even raise prices!
So what’s the social worker saying?
You’re saying:
Quote:
Match to Answer Choice C:
Quote:
- ✔️ First = Bakers promote → charge less (past pattern)
- ✔️ Social worker thinks that won’t happen anymore
- ✔️ Second = Explains why: rule change means price isn’t shown → no need to lower prices
05 Oct 2025, 09:45
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Bunuel
Official Explanation:
Step 1: Identify the Question Type
This is definitely a Bolded Statement question since it asks us to identify the roles played in the argument by the statements in boldface.
Step 2: Untangle the Stimulus
The social worker begins by stating that patients pay less for consultations with doctors who promote their specialties. Whenever doctors have been allowed to promote without restriction, more doctors have promoted, and patients have paid less. But under the new laws, the ads no longer have to say how much consultations cost. The social worker thinks this change means patients will pay more for care. The social worker asserts that doctors who promote their specialties will raise their fees and overall costs for patients will rise.
Step 3: Predict the Answer
The first boldface statement describes a cause-and-effect relationship that has existed in the past, but will no longer exist. The second statement shows why this relationship is unlikely to exist in the future.
Step 4: Evaluate the Choices
According to (C), the first of the two bolded statements “supplies an action and a consequence”—i.e., a cause and an effect—that the author believes “will no longer hold true” in the future. (C) says that the second bolded statement provides evidence that this cause-effect relationship will not continue. This matches our prediction straight down the line. (A) is incorrect because the second bolded statement does not describe “an outcome resulting from” the truth of the first bolded statement. (B) mischaracterizes the first bolded statement; the social worker does not believe that the cause-effect relationship “will be replicated.” Answer choice (D) inaccurately states that the first statement is evidence in support of the second statement. And (E) doesn’t work, since nobody is arguing against the social worker’s position. (C) is correct.
