Facts: Stronger patent laws are needed to protect the rights of inventors. With

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Facts: Stronger patent laws are needed to protect the rights of inventors. With that protection, manufacturers would be encouraged to invest in the development of new products and technologies. Such investment frequently results in an increase in a manufacturer's productivity.

Conclusion: Stronger patent laws would stimulate improvements in productivity for ABC Manufacturing Company.

Necessarily true

Probably, but not necessarily, true

Cannot be determined

Probably, but not necessarily, false

Necessarily false

Explanation / Answer

Here's the flow of thought:
Stronger patent laws necessarily protect the rights of inventors = > This protection encourages investment in development of new products and technologies => These investments "FREQUENTLY" (which means not necessarily but usually, OR likely but not compulsorily) increase manufactuers productivity.

Now stronget patent laws would:
Necesssarily protect the rights of inventors
Necessarily encourage investment in development (which in turn would)
PROBABLY (since "frequently" has been used) result in improvement of manufacturer's productivity;

Hence the correct answer is probably but not necessarily true;

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