Of every 100 burglar alarms police answer, 99 are false alarms. This situation causes an enormous and dangerous drain...
KiaBrodersenSeptember 21, 2023
Is there any way to better understand convoluted and wordy answer choices?
Hello,
I felt confident about answering this one because I was able to parse out the crucial parts of the argument - conclusion, premise, principle, etc. however, I got this one wrong because I didn't even understand what the correct answer was trying to say? Is there any advice to be able to better understand these wordy questions that are intended to trip you up?
Thank you,
Kia Brodersen
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I think we need to take it word by word and break the answer choice down. Let’s try that for C. C starts by telling us that the statement is a basis for excluding as unacceptable…
This is telling us that the statement eliminates some other thing because that other thing is unacceptable.
Up next it tell us …one obvious alternative to the proposal mentioned in the passage. So, while we don’t know what the obvious alternative is yet, we can put these two halves together to reach the idea that C is saying that the statement in question eliminates an obvious alternative to the fines because that obvious alternative is unacceptable.
Given the context of the passage it seems likely that the obvious alternative was to simply ban alarms. However this is unacceptable since they do have some deterrent value.
