With which one of the following statements would the economists discussed in the passage be most likely to agree?

AneeshU on November 8, 2021

Justification for eliminating answer choice D

Could someone please help me understand the reasoning for how choice D was eliminated?

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Jay-Etter on January 23, 2022

Here we would eliminate option D because note that the question is asking us which would the ECONOMISTS agree with, not which would the author agree with. The economists' position is only in paragraphs 1 and 2, whereas the likelihood of a corporation recommitting a crime being taken into account in the penalty is something that the author themselves mentions in paragraph 3. The economists never mention taking into account the likelihood of recommission

AneeshU on June 7, 2022

Yes, agreed. Thank you.