Logical Reasoning

PT12 · S4 · Q12 Fossil-fuel emissions, considered a key factor

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Fossil-fuel emissions, considered a key factor in the phenomenon known as global warming, contain two gases, carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide, that have opposite effects on atmospheric temperatures.

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.

12.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain the claim made in the last sentence above?

  1. Correct

    Carbon dioxide stays in the

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

    92% picked this

  2. Sulfur pollution is not spread

    Trap

    1% picked this

  3. While it has long been

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. Carbon dioxide is produced not

    Trap

    4% picked this

  5. Because fossil-fuel emissions contain sulfur

    Trap

    0% picked this

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