Multiple choice

Are you still drinking Outoftown milk? Do you know that the Outoftown milk brand cannot offer you fresh, locally sourced milk as it is based in a city outside the state? Drink Fromthetown, the only fresh, locally sourced milk brand of your own city! Which of the following most directly refutes the argument raised in the advertisement above?

  1. Over half of the milk sales of Fromthetown come from customers located outside the city.

  2. Fromthetown usually sources more of its milk from outside the city than does Outoftown.

  3. Nearly forty percent of the customers of Outoftown reside outside the limits of the city.

  4. The Chief Manager and all the other members of the managerial staff of Outoftown have lived and worked in the city for ten years or more.

  5. Outoftown has been selling milk in the city for a longer time than Fromthetown.

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The argument claims that Outoftown is not fresh as Fromthetown because it is not locally sourced. If we take assertions of option (2) to be true, then the claim made by Fromthetown turns out to be hollow. Hence option (2) is correct.