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A study found that students who listen to classical music while studying scored higher on exams than those who studied in silence. Therefore, listening to classical music improves a student's ability to learn.
Which of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
- The music listeners' higher scores were not simply a result of those students being stronger performers to begin with.
- Most students happen to find classical music more relaxing for studying than silence or any other type of background noise.
- The students in the study were all majoring in the very same academic subject as one another at the time they were tested.
- Classical music improves a student's ability to learn more effectively than any other genre of background music possibly could.
- Classical music exerts a more pronounced effect on students' exam scores than it does on their day-to-day retention of material.
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