Logical Reasoning

PT106 · S3 · Q12 Letter to the Editor: Your article

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Letter to the Editor: Your article on effective cockroach control states that vexone is effective against only one of the more than 4,000 cockroach species that infest North America: the German cockroach.

Conclusion

You're wrong to say that vexone is only effective against the German cockroach. (it's been used effectively for almost a decade against all the species that infest North America).

Evidence

We have many documented studies of our product Roach Ender, which contains vexone, that demonstrate this.

Evaluate

This question stem looks like a Must Be False EXCEPT. But when we read the stimulus, it sounds like an argument.

The question stem refers to it as a "view", which is an ambiguous term that could allude to an individual belief or to an entire argument.

The stimulus reads like a rebuttal argument. We might notice the Part vs. Whole flaw happening.

Vexone is a part of Roach Ender.

Roach Ender, the product, is effective against all the species that infest North America.

Thus, the author concludes, vexone is effective against all the species that infest North America.

Goal

It's hard to know what the answers will be offering us, because we never see question stems like, "All of these conflict with this view EXCEPT".

We should probably just look for four answers that seem to either weaken the argument or go against one of the claims presented.

12.

Each of the following statements conflicts with the letter writer's view EXCEPT:

  1. Vexone is effective against only

    Conflicts

    The author said that vexone is effective against all the species that infest North America. This answer seems to be saying that vexone is ineffective against all but two species of cockroach that infest North America.

    6% picked this

  2. Not all of the major

    Conflicts

    The final sentence is saying that Roach Ender "has been utilized effectively" for almost a decade against all of the species that infest North America. This answer is saying, "some species of cockroach that infest North America cannot be controlled by Roach Ender".

    6% picked this

  3. Correct

    Every species of cockroach that

    Why this is right

    This matches what the author is saying in the second sentence, so it doesn't conflict with the author's view. It is the author's view.

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

    68% picked this

  4. The cockroach infestations that have

    Conflicts

    The author says that vexone has been used effectively for almost a decade against all of the species that infest North America. But this answer is saying that vexone hasn't actually combated all the cockroach species that infest North America.

    7% picked this

  5. Roach Ender was tested against

    Conflicts

    Since the author is boasting that Roach Ender has been shown in tests to be effective against all of the species that infest North America, and since the author that there are "more than 4,000 cockroach species in North America", the author must believe that Roach Ender has been tested on "more than 4000 species".

    13% picked this

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