A salesperson who makes a sale does not change the desires of the customer. Rather, the salesperson finds out what these desires are and then convinces the customer that a particular product will satisfy them. Persuading people to vote for a politician to whom they are initially indifferent is not significantly different. After discovering what policies the prospective voter would like to see in place, one tries to __________________

Which one of the following 1nost logically completes the argument?

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show that the opponents of the politician in question do not favor all of those policies

disguise any difference between the policies the politician supports and the policies supported by other candidates

convince the voter that the policies favored by the politician in question are preferable to those favored by the voter

demonstrate that the politician is a person of outstanding character and is interested in some of the same issues as the voter

persuade the voter that voting for the politician in question is the best way to get these policies adopted\n

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What this question tests

Whether you can complete the last sentence of an argument in a way that is logically consistent with it.

Choosing an option that sounds plausible but contradicts the argument or introduces new information.