Installing advanced filtration systems in exhaust stacks and transitioning to renewable energy sources are the two strategies available to Green Energy Corp for minimizing toxic emissions from its facilities. Advanced filtration systems will decrease toxic emissions more effectively than renewable energy sources will. Therefore, by installing advanced filtration systems, Green Energy Corp will be doing the most that can be done to minimize toxic emissions from its facilities.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

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Green Energy Corp can select from various types of advanced filtration systems, some of which are more efficient than others.

Transitioning to renewable energy sources will not be more costly than installing advanced filtration systems.

Green Energy Corp is not necessarily focused on minimizing toxic emissions from its facilities.

Toxic emissions from Green Energy Corp's facilities cannot be reduced more by using both strategies together than by the installation of advanced filtration systems alone.

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Aside from toxic emissions from the exhaust stacks of its facilities, the operations of Green Energy Corp do not contribute significantly to air pollution.

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The argument states that installing advanced filtration systems is the best way for Green Energy Corp to minimize toxic emissions because these systems are more effective than transitioning to renewable energy sources. For this conclusion to hold, it must be assumed that using both strategies together would not lead to a greater reduction in toxic emissions than…

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What this question tests

What it tests

Whether you can identify the unstated assumption a critical-reasoning argument depends on.

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Picking an option that strengthens the argument or is merely relevant instead of one that is required.