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The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers there are who advertise their services, and the lawyers who advertise a specific service usually charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements, overall consumer legal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current restrictions.
If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
The fewer restrictions there are on the advertising of legal services, the more lawyers there are who advertise their services, and the lawyers who advertise a specific service usually charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. Therefore, if the state removes any of its current restrictions, such as the one against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements, overall consumer legal costs will be lower than if the state retains its current restrictions.
If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
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The passage’s opening rule (fewer restrictions leads to more lawyers advertising) applies directly to the fee-arrangement example given.
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- Some lawyers who now advertise will charge more for specific services if they do not have to specify fee arrangements in the advertisements.
- More consumers will use legal services if there are fewer restrictions on the advertising of legal services.
- If the restrictions against advertisements that do not specify fee arrangements are removed, more lawyers will advertise their services.
- If more lawyers advertise lower prices for specific services, some lawyers who do not advertise will also charge less than they currently charge for those services.
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The Correct Option is C
Solution and Explanation
“Must be true” questions are best solved by checking which option is a near word-for-word consequence of a premise already given, rather than a plausible-sounding new claim.
- The passage's opening line is essentially: fewer restrictions → more lawyers advertise.
- Removing the fee-arrangement-disclosure restriction is explicitly called out as an example of “removing a current restriction”.
- Applying the opening rule to this specific example gives exactly: removing this restriction → more lawyers will advertise, which is option C.
- The other three options each introduce a new claim (prices rising, more consumers using legal services, non-advertisers lowering prices) that the passage never actually asserts, so none of them is guaranteed by the given statements.
Only option C is a direct, guaranteed consequence of what is stated.
So the correct answer is option C.
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