Question

The availability of used textbooks serves to increase the price of new textbooks. There are several reasons to conclude this. One reason is that textbook publishers will sell fewer new textbooks if used textbooks are widely available, forcing them continuously to create new textbook editions to generate sustainable revenue. This results in a cyclical process whereby publishers publish a new edition, let the market saturate with used textbooks, spend capital to produce another new edition, publish the revision, and again wait for the used textbook market to become saturated with the new edition. This process continues indefinitely, with each new edition having a further inflated price.

Above passage makes a:________

Answer 1

Explicit Inferential Claim

Step-by-step explanation:

The above passage makes an explicit inferential claim because after making a statement of fact in the first sentence, the second sentence then employed indicative statements as to why the conclusion was reached. An inferential claim is an expression that outlines some type of reasoning and then states some facts from this reasoning.

An explicit inferential claim uses some indicator words such as therefore, hence, thus, etc., to show that a conclusion is being reached. An implicit inferential claim is marked by an absence of the indicators of a final conclusion.