PrepTest 126, Section 4, Question 22
Radio airplay restrictions are nationally imposed regulations.(42 more words not shown)
Which one of the following(14 more words not shown)
- AAll prepackaged desserts(43 more words not shown)
- BCoreopsis is a(45 more words not shown)
- CThe Windsor Coalition(43 more words not shown)
- DCompact discs are(36 more words not shown)
- ETraffic laws are(42 more words not shown)
Reading the argument
This conclusion follows. The guide covers national regulations unless they're about taxation or labor law. Radio restrictions are national regulations, and neither exception applies. So they belong in the guide.
What we’re looking for
For the parallel, keep that sequence intact: put something in the covered group, check that it avoids both exceptions, then apply the rule. We don't need a complicated diagram. We do need each connection.
Working the answers
- A
The rule concerns prepackaged desserts, but the conclusion moves to prepackaged snack foods. We haven't established that those snack foods all fall within the rule's dessert category. There's also a shift from many snack foods having the stated nutritional problem to a recommendation about snack foods generally. The original establishes that the whole subject of its conclusion fits the covered group and avoids both exceptions.
- BCorrect
Coreopsis is a perennial, just as radio restrictions are national regulations. The Garden Club gives each perennial a prize, just as the City Club covers all national regulations, subject to two exceptions. Shrubs and plants not native to North America correspond to the taxation and labor-law exceptions.
Coreopsis is not a shrub and is native to North America, so neither exception applies. Being native is what gets it outside the exception for plants that are not native. Therefore it receives the prize. Every part matches: covered category, rule, two exceptions, facts ruling out both, and the resulting inclusion.
- C
The coalition belongs to the relevant kind of community organizing, but the rule has an exception for threats to regional economic growth. Does this coalition pose such a threat? We're never told. The original explicitly rules out its exceptions before drawing the conclusion. C skips that essential check.
- D
Not producing analog devices doesn't mean producing every device that isn't analog. Leotol might make only one particular kind of nonanalog device and no compact discs. D shows that a barrier doesn't apply, but never gives a rule guaranteeing production of everything outside that barrier. Our original does give a rule covering all regulations outside the stated exceptions.
- E
Supporting traffic laws in the public interest doesn't establish support for every government regulation in the public interest. Traffic laws are only one kind of regulation. E extends a rule from that narrower group to the larger group; the original applies a general rule to a qualifying member of its group.
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