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1. GWD-17-Q9
Press Secretary: Ourcritics claim that the President’s recent highway project cancellationsdemonstrate a vindictive desire to punish legislative districts controlled byopposition parties. They offer asevidence the fact that 90 percent of the projects canceled were in suchdistricts. But all of the canceled projectshad been identified as wasteful in a report written by respected nonpartisanauditors. So the President’s choice wasclearly motivated by sound budgetary policy, not partisan politics. Which of the following is an assumption on which the press secretary’sargument depends?
Answer:Thescheduled highway projects identified as wasteful in the report were not mostlyprojects in districts controlled by the President’s party.
2. GWD-17-Q30
In a study conducted in Pennsylvania , servers in various restaurantswrote “Thank you” on randomly selected bills before presenting the bills totheir customers. Tips on these billswere an average of three percentage points higher than tips on bills withoutthe message. Therefore, if servers in Pennsylvania regularlywrote “Thank you” on restaurant bills, their average income from tips would besignificantly higher than it otherwise would have been. Which of the following is an assumption on which theargument relies?
Answer:Regularly seeing “Thank you” written on their billswould not lead restaurant patrons to revert to their earlier tipping habits.
3. GWD-17-Q41
Last year a record number of new manufacturing jobs werecreated. Will this year bring anotherrecord? Well, any new manufacturingjob is created either within an existing company or by the start-up of a newcompany. Within existing firms, newjobs have been created this year at well below last year’s record pace. At the same time, there is considerableevidence that the number of new companies starting up this year will be nohigher than it was last year and there is no reason to think that the newcompanies starting up this year will create more jobs per company than did lastyear’s start-ups. So clearly, thenumber of new jobs created this year will fall short of last year’s record. In the argument given, the two portions in boldfaceplay which of the following roles?
Answer:The first is presented as obvious truth on which theargument is based; the second is a judgment advanced in support of the mainconclusion of the argument
4. GWD-23-Q14
Plantings of cottonbioengineered to produce its own insecticide against bollworms, a major causeof crop failure, sustained little bollworm damage until this year. This year the plantings are being seriouslydamaged by bollworms. Bollworms,however, are not necessarily developing resistance to the cotton’sinsecticide. Bollworms breed on corn,and last year more corn than usual was planted throughout cotton-growingregions. So it is likely that the cottonis simply being overwhelmed by corn-bred bollworms. In evaluating the argument,which of the following would be most useful to establish? Answer: Whetherplantings of cotton that does not produce the insecticide are sufferingunusually extensive damage from bollworms this year 5. GWD-21-Q4
Which of the following most logically completes thepassage? Appendicitis (inflammation of the appendix) ispotentially fatal; consequently, patients with symptoms strongly suggestingappendicitis almost have their appendix removed. The appropriate surgery islow-risk but performed unnecessarily in about 20 percent of all cases. A newlydeveloped internal scan for appendicitis is highly accurate, producing twomisdiagnoses for every 98 correct diagnoses. Clearly, using this test, doctorscan largely avoid unnecessary removals of the appendix without, however, performing any fewer necessaryones than before, since .
Answer: the misdiagnoses produced by this test arealways instances of attributing appendicitis to someone who does not, in fact,have it
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