PT103.S3.Q19

PrepTest 103 - Section 3 - Question 19

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Over the past 20 years, skiing has become a relatively safe sport due to improvements in ski equipment. █████ ███ ████ █ ██ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ███ ████ ██ ██████ ████████ ████████ █████ ████ ███ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ██████ ██ ████████ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████████ ████ ███████ █████ ███ ████████ ██████ ████ ███ █████ ████████ ████ █████████ ██ ██ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████ ████████ ███ █████████ ██ ███████ ██ ███ ███ █████████ ██ █████████████ ████ ███ ██ ███████ ██ ██ █████ ████

Summarize Argument

The argument concludes that not every type of ski injury has seen decreasing numbers, although the number of ski injuries has decreased overall. This is supported with the statistic that knee injuries, which used to represent 11 percent of ski injuries, now represent 16 percent.

Identify and Describe Flaw

This is a cookie-cutter flaw of confusing amounts and percentages. The argument’s conclusion is about the amount of different types of ski injuries, but the evidence is only about percentages. However, it’s entirely possible that there are fewer knee injuries now, even though they account for a greater percentage of all ski injuries—for example, because the number of other injury types has just decreased more.

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19.

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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

It proceeds as ██████ █████ █████ ██ █ ███████ ████████ ██ ████████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ██████ ████ █████ ██ ██ ████████ ████████

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