Critical Thinking Questions With Answers

Such a quarantine program might lead horticultural companies to start selling tulu plants only if they areless than 24 weeks old, thereby minimizing the chance of quarantine by minimizing the chance of detection. Last year the rate of inflation was 1.2 percent, but for the current year it has been 4 percent.We can conclude that inflation is on an upward trend and the rate will be still higher next year.If this information were provided, it would weaken support for the conclusion. Option E : Difficulty of access to the trees could provide a disincentive to their harvesting—but we are not told that it would prevent their harvesting. For similar carsand comparable drivers, automobile insurance for collision damage has always costmore in Great port than in Fairmont.

Such a quarantine program might lead horticultural companies to start selling tulu plants only if they areless than 24 weeks old, thereby minimizing the chance of quarantine by minimizing the chance of detection. Last year the rate of inflation was 1.2 percent, but for the current year it has been 4 percent.We can conclude that inflation is on an upward trend and the rate will be still higher next year.If this information were provided, it would weaken support for the conclusion. Option E : Difficulty of access to the trees could provide a disincentive to their harvesting—but we are not told that it would prevent their harvesting. For similar carsand comparable drivers, automobile insurance for collision damage has always costmore in Great port than in Fairmont.

The information is sufficient tojustify a little doubt about the argument's conclusion—but not at all specific enough to undermine the argument's conclusion as much as does answer choice (B).

Option E : The failure of government intervention to affect the rate of inflation could be seen to support, not weaken, the conclusion. Thyrian lawmaker: Thyria's Cheese Importation Board inspects all cheese shipments to Thyria and rejects shipments not meeting specified standards. Therefore, since the health consequences and associated economic costs of not rejecting that 1 percent are negligible, whereas the board's operating costs are considerable, for economic reasons alone the board should be disbanded. The threat of having their shipments rejected deters many cheese exporters from shipping substandard product.

Option D : This information implies, for example, that two years ago, the inflation rate was higher than 1.2 percent.

This raises thepossibility (without stating it) that last year and theyear preceding mark a trend of declining inflation (and that the current year's 4 percent is an aberration).

A drug that is highly effective in treating many types of infection can, at present, be obtained only from the bark of the ibora, a tree that is quite rare in the wild.

It takes the bark of 5,000 trees to make one kilogram of the drug.

The consultant responds to the lawmaker's argument by Option A : The consultant does reject the lawmaker's argument, but the consultant does not propose higher standards.

Indeed, in suggesting that the board should be retained, the consultant implies that the board's standards are appropriate.

The information given, however, includes the statement that Greatport cars areless likely to be involved in collisions than are Fairmont cars.

Why this isso—whether, for example, the condition of the roads is a contributory cause—is not relevant.