Critical Reasoning

Logically Complete the sentence:

Aroca County's public schools are supported primarily by taxes on property. The county
plans to eliminate the property tax and support schools with a new three percent sales tax
on all retail items sold in the county. Three percent of current retail sales is less than the
amount collected through property taxes, but implementation of the plan would not
necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools, because
______.
A. many Aroca County residents have already left the county because of its high
property taxes
B. a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to
open in Aroca County
C. at least some Aroca County parents are likely to use the money they will save on
property taxes to send their children to private schools not funded by the county
D. a significant proportion of parents of Aroca County public school students do not
own their homes and consequently do not pay property taxes
E. retailers in Aroca County are not likely to absorb the sales tax by reducing the
pretax price of their goods


OA Later. Explain your answer plz

Chose [spoiler]B & E[/spoiler] as contenders and picked B finally. Obviously, the statement must tell you how sales tax is going to provide support.

g000fy wrote:Chose [spoiler]B & E[/spoiler] as contenders and picked B finally. Obviously, the statement must tell you how sales tax is going to provide support.

Ya its B

IMO, the answer is B

B. a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to open in Aroca County

Could you quote the source please?

As the blank is preceded by a "because", we need to look for something that will support the conclusion
"implementation of the plan would not necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools"

IMO, it is B does exactly that.

shovan85 wrote:Logically Complete the sentence:

Aroca County's public schools are supported primarily by taxes on property. The county
plans to eliminate the property tax and support schools with a new three percent sales tax
on all retail items sold in the county. Three percent of current retail sales is less than the
amount collected through property taxes, but implementation of the plan would not
necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools, because
______.
A. many Aroca County residents have already left the county because of its high
property taxes
B. a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to
open in Aroca County
C. at least some Aroca County parents are likely to use the money they will save on
property taxes to send their children to private schools not funded by the county
D. a significant proportion of parents of Aroca County public school students do not
own their homes and consequently do not pay property taxes
E. retailers in Aroca County are not likely to absorb the sales tax by reducing the
pretax price of their goods


OA Later. Explain your answer plz

I think answer is B.

a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to open in Aroca County

what is OA?

shovan85 wrote:Logically Complete the sentence:

Aroca County's public schools are supported primarily by taxes on property. The county
plans to eliminate the property tax and support schools with a new three percent sales tax
on all retail items sold in the county. Three percent of current retail sales is less than the
amount collected through property taxes, but implementation of the plan would not
necessarily reduce the amount of money going to Aroca County public schools, because
______.
A. many Aroca County residents have already left the county because of its high
property taxes
B. a shopping mall likely to draw shoppers from neighboring counties is about to
open in Aroca County
C. at least some Aroca County parents are likely to use the money they will save on
property taxes to send their children to private schools not funded by the county
D. a significant proportion of parents of Aroca County public school students do not
own their homes and consequently do not pay property taxes
E. retailers in Aroca County are not likely to absorb the sales tax by reducing the
pretax price of their goods


OA Later. Explain your answer plz

only B makes sense

(C) is not strengthening the conclusion. Here we don't know what is "AT least some" - it may not be sufficient enough to generate enough money to replace/balance the capital generated by the property taxes.
Considering a similar analogy would help.
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Plus we don't know that the quantity represented by "At least some parents" is an addition to what is stated in the argument or whether some parents will shift their children from Public to private schools.

(E) If retailers are not going to absorb the sales tax, then the argument stands where it was before. It doesn't add anything to the argument.

Thanks
Prashant