medium · GMAT Verbal

In the argument, the two boldface portions play which of the following roles? (First: 'contact under competition often deepens hostility'; Second: 'contact reduces prejudice only under cooperative, equal-status conditions')

1. The first is the argument's main conclusion; the second is the evidence the author offers in order to support it.
2. The first is evidence that counts against a claim the argument rejects; the second is the conclusion the argument draws.
3. Both portions are conclusions that the argument introduces only to reject them by the end of its reasoning entirely.
4. The first states the very position the argument sets out to defend; the second is an objection raised against that position.
5. The first is an unstated assumption that the conclusion requires; the second simply restates that assumption in different words.

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