Logical Reasoning

PT113 · S3 · Q11 Several thousand years ago, people

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Several thousand years ago, people in what is now North America began to grow corn, which grows faster and produces more food per unit of land than do the grains these people had grown previously.

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

11.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the people mentioned continued to grow corn as their staple grain crop?

  1. The variety of corn that

    Trap

    16% picked this

  2. Modern varieties of corn are

    Trap

    3% picked this

  3. The people did not domesticate

    Trap

    4% picked this

  4. Some grain crops that could

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. Correct

    The people discovered some years

    Why this is right

    Answer E is correct.

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

    74% picked this

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