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The city council will certainly vote to approve the new downtown redevelopment plan, despite the objections of environmentalists. After all, most of the campaign contributions received by members of the city council come from real estate development firms, which stand to benefit from the plan.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the argument above?

Several members of the city council receive sizable campaign contributions from environmental lobbying groups.
Members of the city council are required to report the size and source of each campaign contribution they receive.
Not every real estate development firm in the city will be able to participate in, and profit from, the new downtown redevelopment plan.
The members of the city council have often voted in ways that are opposed to the interests of their campaign contributors.
Some environmentalists have stated that the new downtown redevelopment plan might be environmentally sound if certain minor modifications are made.

Answer(s): D

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A mail order company recently had a big jump in clothing sales after hiring a copywriter and a graphic artist to give its clothing catalog a magazine like format designed to appeal to a more upscale clientele. The company is now planning to launch a house wares catalog using the same concept.

The company’s plan assumes that

other house wares catalogs with magazine like formats do not already exist
an upscale clientele would be interested in a house wares catalog
the same copywriter and graphic artist could be employed for both the clothing and house wares catalogs
a magazine like format requires a copywriter and a graphic artist
customers to whom the old clothing catalog appealed would continue to make purchases from catalogs with the new format

Answer(s): B

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Civic Leader: The high cancer rate among our citizens is the result of hazardous material produced at your plant.
Board of Directors: Our statistics show that rates of cancer are high throughout the valley in which the plant is situated because local wells that supply drinking water are polluted, not because of the plant.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the board’s claims?

The statistics do not differentiate between types of cancer.
Nearby communities have not changed the sources of their drinking water.
Cancer-causing chemicals used at the plant are discharged into a nearby river and find their way into local wells.
The plant both uses and produces chemicals that have been shown to cause cancer.
Some of the pollutants cited by the board as contaminating the local wells have been present in the wells for decades.

Answer(s): C

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Economies in which a high percentage of resources are invested in research and development show greater growth in the long run than do those in which resources are channeled into consumption. Japanese workers spend a higher percentage of their income investing in research and development than do American workers. To grow as fast as Japan has in the past three decades, the United States must change the tax code in order to encourage savings and investment and discourage debt.
Which of the following, if true, tends to weaken the argument?

Japanese research is more focused on consumers than is research by American firms.
Class mobility, highly valued in American culture, is encouraged by a growing rather than a stagnant economy.
Studies have shown that countries with high consumption rates prosper in the short run.
Proposed changes to the tax code could involve strict limits on the deductibility of interest, and increased allowance for research.
Because a decreasing percentage of the United States is under 40, an age when savings are traditionally low, the savings rate will increase without changes to the tax code.

Answer(s): E

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