Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The mayor of Newtown is up for re-election in a months time and is ex

The mayor is apprehensive about his chances of re-election based on the survey results in Hampstead, Newtown's most populous suburb. To understand the mayor's assumptions, let's evaluate each answer choice:

(A) The people who were part of the survey will in no case change their mind.
- This option doesn't directly address the mayor's assumptions about the survey results or his re-election chances. It focuses on the respondents not changing their minds, but it doesn't clarify the mayor'sconcerns.

(B) The opinion of the residents of Hampstead is a pretty accurate representation of the opinion of the residents of Newtown as a whole.
- This option directly addresses the mayor's assumption. If the mayor is apprehensive based on the survey in Hampstead, it assumes that the opinion of Hampstead residents is a good representation of Newtown residents as awhole.

(C) The mayor was recently involved in a corruption scandal that received a lot of negative publicity in the print media.

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Statistics : Posted by Paras96 • on 13 Jun 2023, 01:30 • Replies 4 • Views 1201

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