Manufacturers who oppose repair legislation usually give safety as the reason: an untrained person opening a device may injure themselves or ruin it. Supporters answer that the same firms sell repair manuals and parts to their own authorised shops, which suggests the knowledge is transferable and the barrier is commercial. Both sides can point to real cases. What is not in dispute is that a device which cannot be repaired is replaced sooner, and that the manufacturer is the party that benefits from that. Whether the safety argument is sincere is, in the end, less important than whether it is the only reason.
Which statement from the passage is presented as a fact rather than as a claim by one side?
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Correct answer to question 59 (Paragraph Comprehension): That an unrepairable device is replaced sooner
Method
The passage attributes the safety argument to manufacturers and the commercial argument to supporters, then marks the replacement point with the phrase what is not in dispute. That signal is the whole basis for the answer.
Updated: November 2026
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