PT117.S3.Q10

PrepTest 117 - Section 3 - Question 10

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Summarize Argument

The argument concludes that the geography of cities would be very different if cars hadn’t been widely used. This is because cities were designed with lots of space to allow for the use of cars.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The argument fails to prove that, without cars, cities would have been designed differently. The wide use of cars caused cities to be designed with lots of open space, but something else could have also caused them to be designed that way. While it’s possible that, without the wide use of cars, cities would have ended up with very different geography, the premises don’t prove that they definitely would have.

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10.

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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

takes for granted ████ ██████ ██████████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ████████ ███████████

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