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ID: GMAT-CR-3
Section: Verbal Reasoning - Critical Reasoning
Topic: Inference
Difficulty level: Medium

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Increasing the legal availability of recreational drugs in an area inhibits the black-market trade of these drugs. Social research has demonstrated that an increase in black-market trade of recreational drugs in an area is accompanied by a great increase in the local price of these drugs. This pushes many regular users of these drugs into crime to arrange money for their drug-habit, and thus, increases the crime-rate of the area.

The statements above most strongly support which of the following inferences?

ADecreased availability of recreational drugs in an area leads to a great increase in the local price of these drugs.
BIncreasing the availability of recreational drugs in an area can decrease the crime-rate of the area.
CMost social researchers recommend a global increase in the legal availability of recreational drugs.
DA decrease in the price of recreational drugs in an area will increase their local availability.
EHigher prices of recreational drugs in an area indicate a growing local black-market for these drugs.

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