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Answer choices

1. A

   Weak Premise Match / Bad Conclusion Match3% picked this

   Many animals must devote most of their energy to locating food, or they will not get enough food to maintain optimal energy levels. Thus,

   The premise doesn't give us a great "things of type X', because type X would be "animals". With this first sentence, the correct conclusion would have said, "Thus, non-animal forms of life are unlikely to devote most of their energy to locating food."

   3%
2. B

   Correct87% picked this

   Often the presence of the flower bee balm in a garden will attract bumblebees that pollinate the plants and enable the garden to produce

   Why this is right

   Gardens that have flower bee balm have abundant crops. Thus, gardens that lack bee balm are unlikely to have abundant crops.

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

   87%
3. C

   Bad Conclusion Match1% picked this

   A person's ability to keep confidences is a large part of being a friend, since frequently such an ability enables a high degree of

   If we're told in the premise that "people who can keep confidences .... are X", then a matching conclusion would need to say "people who cannot keep confidences are unlikely to be X", and this conclusion is nowhere near that.

   1%
4. D

   Bad Conclusion Match7% picked this

   Visual aids can be very useful in effectively teaching math skills, because they generally allow vivid conceptualization of math principles. If such visual aids

   This is somewhat close. The author goes from "Teaching with visual aids can be effective" to a conclusion that kind of feels like "Teaching without visual aids is unlikely to be effective". But the strength of the conclusion is off: sometimes not trait A vs. unlikely to be trait A. Also, the formulation of "Thus, if visual aids were never employed" would mean that the original argument's conclusion had read, "Thus, if there were no such thing as movies with famous actors ..."

   7%
5. E

   Bad Premise Match / Bad Conclusion Match2% picked this

   An understanding of the rules of perspective is necessary for achieving success as a painter, since it is the understanding of these most basic

   The premise is giving us a rule that "X is necessary to Y". That's nothing like the original premise: "Many things of type X have trait A". We could stop reading there, but the conclusion is also mismatching because it doesn't flip from painters who do understand the rules to painters who don't understand the rules.

   2%