QUESTION TEXT: In situations where it is difficult to…
QUESTION TYPE: Complete the Argument
CONCLUSION: Manufacturers should label their products with information about their energy consumption [predicted conclusion]
REASONING: Consumers wanted to make healthy choices, so food manufacturers were required to label their products with nutritional information. Consumers also want to make choices that are energy-efficient.
ANALYSIS: This passage compares consumer decisions about nutrition with consumer decisions about energy use. We are told that companies are required to provide nutritional information in order to assist consumer decision-making, so it follows that this would be a similar solution for energy-based decisions.
The biggest indicator is the principle at the very beginning – the author begins by stating that when consumers are faced with difficult decisions, the solution is to provide them with information.
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- The problem the author is attempting to address is the lack of information on energy use. This answer sidesteps that and makes a statement on what might happen if consumers were informed.
- Manufacturers using less energy does not solve the problem of consumers not having enough information. The consumers in this case would still not know which manufacturers used less energy.
- This answer may be true, but that’s not what the question is asking. The scope of this passage is narrow – we are focused on solving the problem of consumer decision-making, not what might happen when we do.
- This does not follow from the argument provided. The argument is focusing on the provision of information to consumers as a solution – not the demand of consumers.
- CORRECT. This answer follows from the logic of the argument. See the analysis above.
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