Logical Reasoning

PT101 · S2 · Q7 A neighborhood group plans to protest

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A neighborhood group plans to protest the closing of the neighborhood’s only recreation center on the grounds that to do so would leave the neighborhood without local access to a recreation center. “Our neighborhood already has the most residents per center of any neighborhood in the city, ” complained one resident, “and closing this center would make the situation unacceptable since access to recreational facilities is a necessity for this neighborhood. ”

Conclusion

Closing this rec center would be unacceptable.

Evidence (since)

If closed, we would have no local access to a rec center. We already have the most residents per center, and access to recreational facilities is a necessity for this neighborhood.

Evaluate / Goal

If we're trying to weaken the argument, we need four ways to argue that "it is acceptable to close this recreation center"

- we're going to build another one? - no one uses this one? - this one is falling apart / too dangerous to use?

7.

Each of the following, if true, weakens the resident's argument EXCEPT:

  1. Correct

    A large number of the

    Why this is right

    This strengthens, if anything. The residents are saying, "We need a rec center. This is the only one this neighborhood has. Without it, we would have no local access to a rec center." This answer seems to be corroborating that story, saying that people would be screwed. They're unable to travel to a different rec center in a different locality.

    Skill tested: Weaken · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

    83% picked this

  2. Children, the main users of

    Weakens

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. The main users of the rec center have been children, and they comprise a small minority of the local population. So most of the local population apparently don't make much use of this rec center.

    6% picked this

  3. Often the recreation center in

    Weakens

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. It's often open, but no one's in it.

    5% picked this

  4. Programs that are routinely filled

    Weakens

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the majority of the neighborhood doesn't seem to be using it. After all programs that are popular elsewhere are ghost towns at this rec center. Classes that fill up elsewhere are canceled due to lack of interest at this rec center.

    3% picked this

  5. As people become more involved

    Weakens

    This helps us argue that it's acceptable to be closing the current rec center on the grounds that the rec centers are increasingly less important, now that people are more into computers and computer games. (haha, funny message there from LSAC -- now that we have screens, who needs exercise facilities!)

    3% picked this

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