PT101.S2.Q5

PrepTest 101 - Section 2 - Question 5

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Method of Reasoning

The argument starts with a comparison between sets of people (among all the classes at the school, the one that collected the most cans was Tarnowski’s). It then moves to a conclusion that compares individual members of those sets (among all the students at the school, the one that collected the most cans was in Tarnowski’s class).

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is a cookie-cutter whole-to-part flaw. The only support is about whole sets (classes), while the conclusion is about the individual members of those sets (students). But the performance of a class as a whole doesn’t tell us about the performance of any specific student, so we can’t infer that the student who collected the most cans is in Tarnowski’s class. It’s possible that a student in another class collected the most cans, while the rest of her classmates collected very few.

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5.

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a

Altogether, more trees ████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ███████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ███████ █████ ███ ███ █████████ █████ █████████ ██████████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███████ ████ █████ ████ ███ █████████ ████████ ████████

b

More than half ██ ██████ ██████████ ████████ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ███ ████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████████ █████ ███████ ██ ██████ ██████████ ██████ ██████ █████ ██ ███ ████ ██ █████ ██ ███ ██████

c

Mr. Rowe's Milton ██████████ ██████ █████ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ █████ ████ ████ ███ ██████ █████ ██████ ██ ███████ █ ███████ ██████████ ███ ██████ ██ █████ ████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ ████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ██████

d

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e

Ms. Ventura's Milton ██████████ ██████ █████ █████████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███ ██ ███ ████████ █████ ████████ █████ ███ █████████ █████ ███ █████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ██████ ██████ ███ ████████ █████████ ████ ███████████ ██ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████ ██████ ██████

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