agdimple333 wrote:
Wine Company Representative: The corks of red wine bottles pose a threat to the environment because they are treated with chemicals that are especially toxic in landfills. However, the new cork that our company developed, which will be adopted by the entire red wine industry, represents a solution. Since the new cork is natural and not treated with chemicals, when the industry completes its transition to the new cork, there will no longer be any threat to landfills from red wine corks.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the argument above?
A) The industry's transition to the new red wine corks will take years, allowing thousands of old corks to pollute landfills.
B) Even after the industry's transition to new corks, a large number of wine bottles with old corks will continue to be consumed.
C) The new corks take considerably longer to produce.
D) Production of the new cork emits more toxic fumes than were emitted in the production of the old cork.
E) The new corks are more expensive than the old corks.
The representative's argument is that when the proposed solution is adopted, there will no longer be any threat.
Argument:
Current corks are toxic in landfills.
Our new corks will be adopted by the entire red wine industry.
New cork is natural and not treated with chemicals
Conclusion: When the industry completes its transition to the new cork, there will no longer be any threat to landfills from red wine corks.
We need to weaken that when the industry completes its transition, there will no longer be any threat to landfills from red wine corks. So we need to show that even after the industry transitions, there will be still be threat to landfills from red wine corks.
A) The industry's transition to the new red wine corks will take years, allowing thousands of old corks to pollute landfills.
It doesn't matter how long it will take. The conclusion talks about what will happen after the transition. That is all we need to focus on.
B) Even after the industry's transition to new corks, a large number of wine bottles with old corks will continue to be consumed.
Correct. If bottles with old corks will continue to be used even after transition, the threat will continue.
Wine bottles can be kept for years before consumption. So after the industry transitions, if still many old bottles are consumed, we will keep getting old corks in the landfills.
In any case, you don't need to know this. You don't have to worry about how old corks will continue to be consumed. You are given that it will happen and you have to take it to be true.
C) The new corks take considerably longer to produce.
Irrelevant
D) Production of the new cork emits more toxic fumes than were emitted in the production of the old cork.
We are talking about threat to landfills. Threat to air is out of scope.
E) The new corks are more expensive than the old corks.
Irrelevant
Answer (B)
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