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Darla questions Charles’s claim that air pollution from automobile exhaust decreases during a recession. As evidence, she points out that during a recession fewer people can afford to buy new cars. Moreover the older the car, the more pollutants that car emits.

Darla’s response weakens the relationship between Charles’s evidence and his hypothesis. She does this by pointing out a fact Charles’s argument does not account for: people buy fewer new cars during a recession and older cars tend to emit more pollutants.

Darla does not question Charles’s premises. She does not deny that unemployment typically rises during a recession, and she does not deny that during a recession fewer people commute in cars to jobs.

Darla’s claims do not contradict Charles’s conclusion. She questions Charles’s conclusion, but this is not the same as disproving Charles’s conclusion.

The additional consideration is that during a recession fewer people buy new cars, and older cars tend to emit more pollutants.

Darla does not argue for the truth of Charles’s conclusion. In fact, she questions why Charles’s hypothesis would follow from his premises.

Darla’s claims point to a consideration Charles’s argument has overlooked, but she does not point to a conclusion that Charles has overlooked.

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88% of people who answer get this correct

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Score of students with a 50% chance of getting this right

25% 130

142

75% 154

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