Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: In an effort to lower the average price over the long term for electri

 

­Themightyknight

The biggest key habit on CR is to focus on the exact wording of the conclusion:

"She claims that the tax reductions WILL keep PRICES for wind-generated electricity artificially low, and thus that PRICES WILL return to their previous levels as soon as the taxes do."


So, the conclusion is a prediction about prices in the future.

But what if there is some other offsettingfactor that she isn't accounting for?


C points tothis:

"How the PRICE of wind-generated electricity in Mongrove is affected by the amount of it producedthere"

What if increased production causes a reduction in price (potentially from economies of scale), completely separate from the impact of the taxes?

Then we have another factor that willreduce prices, and her prediction about increasing prices would be weakened.


For A, "satisfy the demand" is outside of the scope of the conclusion; we must focus on the prediction
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Statistics : Posted by GMATCoachBen • on 15 Mar 2024, 19:49 • Replies 4 • Views 1207

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