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The author concludes that something other than mechanical problems probably caused the nine flight cancellations because it’s unlikely that more than two planes would have mechanical problems in one day.

The assumption lies in the argument’s failure to distinguish between scheduled flights and planes. It’s possible that one airplane could complete more than one flight in a day. If all nine flights were to be completed by one or two airplanes, then mechanical problems could very well be the cause of the cancellations.

The argument depends on the assumption that the nine flights were scheduled with more than one or two airplanes.

This must be true in order for the conclusion to follow. If it weren’t true—if only one or two planes were scheduled for all nine flights—then it wouldn’t be unlikely for mechanical problems to have caused all nine flights to be canceled.

The argument is limited to Swift Airlines, so the frequency of mechanical problems experienced by other airlines is irrelevant.

The conclusion is simply that mechanical problems are unlikely to have been what caused the cancellations. The average length of a Swift flight is irrelevant to that claim.

The argument is only concerned with these nine cancelled flights. There is no need to assume anything about the frequency of canceled flights in the past.

It doesn’t matter where the flights are based. The only question is what caused them to be canceled.

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