Cattle Cost

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Cattle rancher: The new government regulations requiring the testing of all cattle crossing state borders would cost cattle ranchers $1 billion annually. These regulations would damage the nation's economy.

Health regulator: Some of the $1 billion spent or lost by ranchers will be revenue for other businesses. Profits will be gained as well as lost.

The health regulator responds to the cattle rancher by

Review: Cattle Cost


Explanation

Reading the question: we get our task from the question stem. How does the health regulator respond to the cattle rancher? We note the answer choices: we're asked for the logical form of what the regulator is saying, not his actual point.

Creating a filter: The cattle rancher's point can be summed up with the words, "1 billion dollars." The regulator doesn't argue with 1 billion dollars; he redefines it; it's not all loss. We will paraphrase this as "redefine" and go to the answer choices looking for something like this.

Applying the filter: Scanning the beginning of the choices, we can eliminate based on some verbs. The regulator's not agreeing with the rancher, so (D) and (E) are out. He's not subtracting evidence from the situation, so (A) and (B) are out. He's adding information to the situation, through his redefinition. The correct answer is (C).  




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