PT124.S1.Q20

PrepTest 124 - Section 1 - Question 20

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Biologist: Support Lions and tigers are so similar to each other anatomically that their skeletons are virtually indistinguishable. ███ █████ █████████ ███ █████ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ ██████ ████ ████ ██ ████████ ████████████ ███████ █████ ████ ██ ██████ █████ ███████████████ ██████ ██████████ █████ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ████████ ███████ ████ ███████ █████████ ████████ ████ ██ ███████ ██████████ ██████ ██ ██████

Summary

The biologist concludes that paleontologists can’t infer that extinct predators, like some dinosaurs, hunted in packs just based on their skeletons. He supports this by pointing out that, even though they have very similar skeletons, tigers hunt alone, while lions hunt in packs.

Missing Connection

The biologist concludes that you can’t make a certain inference about extinct predators simply because you can’t make the same inference about lions and tigers. However, he never connects lions’ and tigers’ hunting behavior and skeletons with extinct predators’ hunting behavior and skeletons.


To get from his premises to his conclusion, the biologist must assume, at minimum, that if you can’t infer lions’ and tigers’ hunting behavior based only on their skeletons, then you also can’t infer extinct predators’ hunting behavior based only on their skeletons.

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20.

The conclusion is properly drawn ██ █████ ███ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ████████

a

The skeletons of █████ ███ ██████ ███ ██ █████ ████████ ███████ ██ █████████ ██ ███████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████████ ██ ██ █████ ████ ███████ █████████ ████████

b

There have existed ██ █████ ███ ███████ ██ ███████ █████████ █████████ ████ ████ ██ ███████ ██ ████ █████ ████ █████ ████████ ███████ ██ █████████ ██████████████████

c

If skeletal anatomy █████ ██ ████ ██ ██████████ █████ ███ █████████ █ ██████████ ████████ ███████ █████████ ████ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ ██████ █████ ██ ████████ ███████ ██████ ████ █ ███████ ██ ███████ ██████ ██ ██████

d

If any two ██████ ███████ ████ █████████ █████████████████ ████████ ███████ ███████ █████ █████████ ███████ ██████████ ████ ██ ██ █████ ██████████ ██ ██████ █████ ██████ ██ ███ ███████ ████████ ██ █████ ████████ ████ ███ ███ ███████ ████ ███ ████ ████████ ████████

e

If it is ████████████ ██ ██████ ██████ ██ ███ █████ ██ ███████████ ██ ████████ ████████ ████ ███████ ███████ ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ████████ ██ █████ ███████ █████████ ████ ███ ████████ ███████ ██ █████ ███ ███████ ███ █████████ ██████████████████

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