Logical Reasoning

PT133 · S1 · Q1 Backyard gardeners who want

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Backyard gardeners who want to increase the yields of their potato plants should try growing stinging nettles alongside the plants, since stinging nettles attract insects that kill a wide array of insect pests that damage potato plants.

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.

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Which one of the following most logically completes the argument?

  1. stinging nettles require little care

    Trap

    0% picked this

  2. some types of aphids are

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. Correct

    the types of aphids that

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    96% picked this

  4. insect pests typically cause less

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. most aphid species that are

    Trap

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