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Craft and Structure practice question

Text 1 The company's four-day week has raised productivity by 10 percent. Text 2 The 10 percent figure compares the six months after the change with the six months before, which included the company's worst winter for staff illness in a decade.

How would the author of Text 2 most likely respond to Text 1?

  1. A. By suggesting that the period chosen for comparison makes the gain look larger than it is.Correct
  2. B. By agreeing that the four-day week raised productivity by 10 percent.
  3. C. By arguing that staff illness has increased.
  4. D. By denying that the company changed its hours.

Answer: A. By suggesting that the period chosen for comparison makes the gain look larger than it is.

A bad winter before makes any after look good.

Why the other answers are wrong

B. By agreeing that the four-day week raised productivity by 10 percent.
Text 2 questions the figure.
C. By arguing that staff illness has increased.
Illness was in the earlier period.
D. By denying that the company changed its hours.
Text 2 accepts the change happened.

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