Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT131 S2 Q5 Explanation

Gilbert: This food label

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Stimulus

Gilbert: This food label is mistaken. It says that these cookies contain only natural ingredients, but they contain alphahydroxy acids that are chemically company at their plant.

Sabina: The label is not mistaken. After all, alphahydroxy acids also are found sugarcane.

What this question is testing

Strengthen

Your task

Find the choice that makes the argument's conclusion more likely to be true.

Common trap

Answers that are consistent with the argument but add no real support, or that strengthen a claim the argument doesn't make.

Winning move

Locate the gap between evidence and conclusion, then pick the choice that closes it.

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The question
5.

Which one of the following, if true, would most strengthen

Answer choices

  1. Out of Scope1% picked this

    The cookie company has recently dropped alphahydroxy acids from its

    The issue at hand is the specific food label Gilbert and Sabina are discussing. What the company has done since those cookies were made is not relevant to this argument.

  2. Out of Scope4% picked this

    Not all chemicals that are part of the manufacturing process are ingredients

    Chemicals that are not ingredients are not relevant to the argument, since these cookies list alphahydroxy acids as an ingredient.

  3. Too Weak6% picked this

    The label was printed before the cookie company decided to switch from sugarcane alphahydroxy acids

    This could explain how the label came to be mistaken (if that is even the case), but it does not support the view that the label is not mistaken.

  4. Too Weak6% picked this

    Many other foods advertising all natural ingredients also contain some ingredients that

    It could be that their labels are also mistaken.

  5. Correct83% picked this

    All substances except those that do not occur naturally in any source

    Why this is right

    Since alphahydroxy acids ON ? AN occur naturally in sugarcane, this rule implies that alphahydroxy acids are considered natural.

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

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