skhanna wrote:In Chapter 2 - "Diagramming Problem Set" of Manhattan guide to Critical Reasoning 4th edition, there is the following question:

"Estimated mileage for a new vehicle assumes that the operator will never exceed sixty miles per hour, encounter traffic, or operate the air conditioner. Because these things do happen in practice, the actual mileage of the vehicle is often significantly lowerthan the estimates noted on the vehicle's window sticker. To rectify this discrepancy, the Environmental Protection Agency has mandated that by 2008, window stickers must reflect actual, rather than theoretical, mileage, a change that is expected to result in an average decline of twelve percent for city driving and eight percent for highway driving."

Manhattan answer to this question claims that there is no conclusion in this argument, but on the other hand in the chapter they mentioned that "expected to result in" is a prediction for future and hence a conclusion.

So my question is - isn't "a change that is expected to result in an average decline of twelve percent for city driving and eight percent for highway driving" a conclusion in the above argument??

skhanna wrote:In Chapter 2 - "Diagramming Problem Set" of Manhattan guide to Critical Reasoning 4th edition, there is the following question:

"Estimated mileage for a new vehicle assumes that the operator will never exceed sixty miles per hour, encounter traffic, or operate the air conditioner. Because these things do happen in practice, the actual mileage of the vehicle is often significantly lowerthan the estimates noted on the vehicle's window sticker. To rectify this discrepancy, the Environmental Protection Agency has mandated that by 2008, window stickers must reflect actual, rather than theoretical, mileage, a change that is expected to result in an average decline of twelve percent for city driving and eight percent for highway driving."

Manhattan answer to this question claims that there is no conclusion in this argument, but on the other hand in the chapter they mentioned that "expected to result in" is a prediction for future and hence a conclusion.

So my question is - isn't "a change that is expected to result in an average decline of twelve percent for city driving and eight percent for highway driving" a conclusion in the above argument??