PT 35 S4 Q2

Bureaucratic mechanisms are engineered to resist change.Thus, despite growing ... ...

The claim that bureaucratic mechanisms are engineered to resist change plays which one of the following roles in the argument?
(A) It is a premise offered in support of the claim that it is unlikely that bureaucracies will be simplified.
(B) ...
(C) ...
(D) ...
(E) ...

*This question is included in Practice Set: "Method/Function" Questions, Set 2 - Func