Environmentalist: When bacteria degrade

Answer choices

1. A

   Correct72% picked this

   In at least some landfills that have been converted into public parks there are bacteria that

   Why this is right

   This provides the second of the anticipated assumptions in the argument. Unless the bacteria are degrading household cleaning products, the presence of those products do not threaten human health.

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

   72%
2. B

   Reversal5% picked this

   Converting a landfill into a public park will cause no damage to human health unless toxic vapors are produced in that landfill

   This reverses an assumption of DH → TV the argument that toxic vapors damage human health.

   5%
3. C

   Wrong Trigger12% picked this

   If a practice involves the exposure of humans to vapors from household cleaning products, then it causes at least

   The trigger should not be exposure to vapors from household cleaning products, but rather toxic vapors produced when bacteria degrade household cleaning products.

   12%
4. D

   Out of Scope1% picked this

   When landfills are converted to public parks, measures could be taken that would prevent people using the parks from

   Whether the problem could be mitigated is not relevant to whether the problem currently exists.

   1%
5. E

   Too Strong11% picked this

   If vapors toxic to humans are produced by the degradation of household cleaning products by bacteria in any landfill, then the health of

   The trigger has been strengthened to apply to any landfill, while the argument only assumes that human health will be damaged at those landfills converted to public parks.

   11%