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The archaeologist hypothesizes that the building was not a home. This is because it is made from three kinds of stone, two of which aren’t native to the area. Most buildings in the area were made entirely from the native stone. Most of them were also homes.
The archaeologist assumes that just because the building they are studying has a different stone makeup from most of the other buildings, it must not have had the same use as those buildings. In other words, he assumes that just because one characteristic is different, other characteristics must be different too.
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This does not affect the argument, and it doesn’t tell us anything new. We already know that most of the buildings were made from limestone and most of them were dwellings.
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This strengthens the argument. It provides evidence that substantiates the author’s assumption that because the building is made in part from non-native stone, it must not have been a dwelling. (B) tells us that buildings that were not dwellings share this characteristic.
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This does not affect the argument. It provides more evidence for how unique the building they’re studying is, but doesn’t tell us anything about what the building was used for.
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This does not affect the argument, as we are already told this in the stimulus, which says “most of the buildings at the site from the same time period [...] were human dwellings.”
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This does not affect the argument. It provides more evidence for how unique the building they’re studying is, but doesn’t tell us anything about what the building was used for.
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