well, the claim is highly relevant to both of those things.sam117 wrote:You say that "A developer who wishes to make a large profit would be wise to buy urban waterfront lots and erect residential buildings on them." is the claim we are asked about.
In my opinion this is not a claim about urban waterfront properties but about developers who wish to make large profit.
as for which association is important in the problem at hand -- that depends, of course, on context (like everything else in the world of critical reasoning).
analogy:
chocolate can kill dogs.
this statement has to do with chocolate, but it also has to do with dogs.
if you are reading a passage about canine nutrition/mortality, then, obviously, the association of this statement with dogs is more important. on the other hand, if the passage is about the potential toxicity of chocolate, then it's suddenly a statement about chocolate.
