PT129.S1.Q17

PrepTest 129 - Section 1 - Question 17

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Support Warm air tends to be humid, and Support as humidity of air increases, the amount of rainfall also increases. ███ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ██████ ███ ████ ██████████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ████ ████ █████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ███████████ ██ ██████████ ██ █████

Method of Reasoning

The argument starts by presenting a correlation between two factors (warm air and humidity) and giving evidence that the second factor (humidity) causally contributes to a third factor (rainfall). It then concludes that an increase in the third factor is evidence of an increase in the first.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This argument features bad causal reasoning. We’re given evidence that warm air could be one potential cause of higher rainfall, but there could be others. An increase in rainfall could be from pollution, changes in Earth’s ozone layer, or any other number of reasons. We’re also only given a correlation between warm air and rainfall, so we don’t know if warm air leads to more rain in the first place.

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17.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

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