Critical Reasoning (CR) | Mayor: Last year the city of Honigsburg passed a law exempting busines

­Hi sayan640,

The mayor tells us "the law has created more jobs for the residents of Honigsburg", and their support is "in the year that the law has been on the books businesses have broken ground on more than 20 new retail, office, and manufacturing buildings right here in Honigsburg".

We can weaken this by attacking the link (a) between the law and more buildings/jobs and/or (b) the link between more offices and more jobs. In other words, we can show that more offices ≠ more jobs. We can also show that even if more offices = more jobs, there is no connection with thelaw.

B. This option tells us that every one of the 20 buildings the mayor is using as support would have been built even without the new law. This means that the contribution of the law is effectively0.

D. This option tells us that out of the 20 new {retail, office, and manufacturing} buildings, the
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Statistics : Posted by AjiteshArun • on 11 Oct 2023, 01:30 • Replies 9 • Views 1943

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