Any food that is not sterilized

Answer choices

1. A

   Too Strong: all6% picked this

   All food preserved by an acceptable method is free of

   We know that all acceptably preserved food has either been Sterilized and Sealed (in which case no bacteria) or it slows the growth of bad bacteria. That latter possibility would not be free of disease-causing bacteria, so not all acceptably preserved foods are totally free of bad bacteria.

   6%
2. B

   Too Strong4% picked this

   Preservation methods that destroy enzymes that cause food to spoil do not

   There's no way to establish some certain, conditional connection that says Method destroys enzymes ? doesn't sterilize We don't have any info that lets us say something universal about all preservation methods that destroy food-spoiling enzymes.

   4%
3. C

   Unsupported Comparison5% picked this

   Food preserved by a sterilization method is less likely to discolor quickly than food preserved

   We know that certain food-preservation methods sterilize and some of them slow down the discoloration process. We have no idea if those two things overlap at all, and we certainly couldn't compare likelihood of of discoloring quickly to all non-sterilization preservation methods.

   5%
4. D

   Correct68% picked this

   Any nonsterilized food preserved by an acceptable method can contain

   Why this is right

   This answer is pretty much a boring repetition of the first sentence, only it adds in "acceptable" from the 3rd sentence for no reason, other than to complicate people's thinking. The first sentence said that if a food is not sterilized, then it can contain disease-causing bacteria. That holds for any food, whether it's been preserved by an acceptable or unacceptable method.

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

   68%
5. E

   Backwards17% picked this

   If a food contains no bacteria, then it has been preserved by

   This gives us this conditional: No bacteria ? acceptable method We know "sterilized and sealed ? no bacteria". We only know "no bacteria" as a necessary condition, not a sufficient one. And we know "acceptable method ? sterilized and sealed or Slow Bac" We only know "acceptable method" as a sufficient condition, not a necessary one.

   17%