PrepTest 89, Section 3, Question 17
Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. But because teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences, humanities departments bring in more money than they spend while the reverse is true of science departments. As a result, contrary to the typical characterization that humanities departments freeload on science departments, humanities departments actually subsidize science departments. Thus, it is a mistake for universities to cut humanities departments when facing budget shortfalls.
Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. But because teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences, humanities departments bring in more money than they spend while the reverse is true of science departments. As a result, contrary to the typical characterization that humanities departments freeload on science departments, humanities departments actually subsidize science departments. Thus, it is a mistake for universities to cut humanities departments when facing budget shortfalls.
Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. But because teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences, humanities departments bring in more money than they spend while the reverse is true of science departments. As a result, contrary to the typical characterization that humanities departments freeload on science departments, humanities departments actually subsidize science departments. Thus, it is a mistake for universities to cut humanities departments when facing budget shortfalls.
Legislator: University humanities departments bring in less tuition and grant money than science departments. But because teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences, humanities departments bring in more money than they spend while the reverse is true of science departments. As a result, contrary to the typical characterization that humanities departments freeload on science departments, humanities departments actually subsidize science departments. Thus, it is a mistake for universities to cut humanities departments when facing budget shortfalls.
Which one of the following most accurately describes the role played in the legislator's argument by the claim that teaching and research cost significantly less in the humanities than in the sciences?
It is offered as support for the accuracy of an alleged stereotype.
It is an alleged stereotype rejected in the argument's overall conclusion.
It is put forward as a component of an explanation for a premise of the argument.
It is an intermediate conclusion from which the argument's overall conclusion is inferred.
It is one of many claims each presented as independent support for the argument's overall conclusion.
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