Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: A minority but influential investor in Quell has recently claimed that

Pre-thinking-
The first boldface - the company's stock is undervalued - is a claim by "A minority but influential investor.". Then the investor further explains his claim.
The author's language conveys that he/she will contrast the claim, and that's what has happened - the use of "however."
The second boldface - "guilty of the precise accusation that he himself is making" is the main conclusion.

Option elimination -

(A) The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes(correct) ; the second provides reasoning to undermine the support for the position being opposed (the second is the conclusion and not reasoning...) -wrong

(B) The first states the position that the argument as a whole opposes(correct); the second is reasoning that has been used to support the position being opposed (the second is the conclusion and not reasoning. Moreover it's not at all supporting the "claim" beingopposed).

(C) The first states the position
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Statistics : Posted by ramandhiman • on 18 Jul 2016, 06:47 • Replies 13 • Views 15863

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