Throughout this test, write your answer on the form provided. Erasure marks may cause the grading machine to mark your answer wrong. INSTRUCTIONS: The following selections relate to distinguishing arguments from nonarguments and identifying conclusions. Select the best answer for each. All businesses are involved in three types of activity-financing, investing, and operating. For example, the

founder of Tootsie Roll needed financing to start and grow his business. This may have come from either personal savings or outside sources. The cash obtained was then invested in the equipment necessary to run the business, such as mixing equipment and delivery vehicles. Once this equipment was in place, the founder could begin the operating activities of making and selling candy. Paul D. Kimmel, et al., Financial Accounting, 3rd edition

A) Argument; conclusion: The cash obtained ... delivery vehicles.

B) Argument; conclusion: Once this equipment was in place ... selling candy.

C) Argument; conclusion: The founder of Tootsie Roll ... grow his business.

D) Argument; conclusion: All businesses are involved ... and operating.

E) Nonargument.


D

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