Logical Reasoning

PT14 · S4 · Q23 A car’s antitheft alarm that sounds

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A car’s antitheft alarm that sounds in the middle of the night in a crowded city neighborhood may stop an attempted car theft.

Your task

Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.

Common trap

Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.

Winning move

Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.

23.

Which one of the following, if assumed by the author of the passage, would allow her properly to draw her conclusion that the owners of alarm-equipped cars should deactivate the alarms when parking in crowded city neighborhoods at night?

  1. The inconvenience of false alarms

    Trap

    0% picked this

  2. In most cases when a

    Trap

    14% picked this

  3. Correct

    Allowing the residents of a

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    80% picked this

  4. People who equip their cars

    Trap

    1% picked this

  5. The sounding of car antitheft

    Trap

    4% picked this

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