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The author concludes that salespeople at major health stores make inaccurate claims about vitamins because they persuade customers to buy products from which the salespeople earn the most money.

This is an ad hominem argument because it attacks the motives of the salespeople without ever addressing the content of their claims. It’s entirely possible that salespeople make at least some accurate claims when selling vitamins regardless of whether they’re trying to earn commission from the sale.

This is descriptively inaccurate. The argument doesn’t paraphrase the idea that the salespeople’s claims are inaccurate in either of the premises.

This describes how the author rejects the claims from the salespeople without ever addressing their substance. Just because salespeople are trying to earn money doesn’t mean that what they’re saying is false.

This is descriptively inaccurate. The argument establishes in a premise that every salesperson in major health stores works on commission; the flaw is assuming that this makes their statements inaccurate.

There is no condition that is sufficient to prove that the salespeople's claims are inaccurate. The author also does not assume that anything is necessary for their claims to be inaccurate.

The argument does not appeal to anyone’s authority on an issue. If anything, it does the opposite since it rejects outright any claim about vitamins from certain salespeople.

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