Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: At an enormous research cost, a leading chemical company has developed

­At an enormous research cost, a leading chemical company has developed a manufacturing process for converting wood fibers into a plastic. According to the company, this new plastic can be used for, among other things, the hulls of small sailboats. But what does the company think sailboat hulls used to be made of? Surely the mania for high technology can scarcely go further thanthis.

The author expressed hidden disagreement to the ethusiasm of unpragmatic tech research from this leading chemical company coz this plastic is not gonna be useful for building the hull ofsailboats. 

P-C for company's manufactoringprocess:
Premise : This company has passion for techresearch
Conclusion : This company invests in the manufacturing process of plastic (also why the manufacturing processexists)

Author's opinion is to disagrees, so any option that can break the premise is the rightanswer

The author’s opinion of the manufacturingprocess described in the passage is based primarily on the
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Statistics : Posted by ClaireCHEN • on 17 Dec 2019, 04:38 • Replies 9 • Views 24505

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