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Corporate Analyst: **To increase our market share, we must either lower our prices or improve our product's quality.** We cannot afford to lower our prices because our production costs are too high. Therefore, **we have no choice but to focus on improving our product's quality**.
The two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
- The first is a premise establishing two options; the second is the main conclusion reached by eliminating one of them.
- The first is a background fact; the second is a premise the analyst initially endorses but eventually goes on to refute.
- The first is an intermediate conclusion derived from the cost premise; the second is the argument's overall main conclusion.
- Both portions are conclusions, each one independently supported by the premise about the company's high production costs.
- The first is the analyst's own main conclusion; the second is a supporting premise offered to justify it.
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