Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT140 S2 Q5 Explanation

Sharita: Anyone who owns a cat

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TopicsAgree/Disagree

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Stimulus

Sharita: Anyone who owns a cat should have it spayed or neutered unless they are willing to take care of the cat’s offspring. It is because people fail to so many stray cats around.

Chad: Stray cats are not only a nuisance, they spread diseases and cause injuries to other cats and to humans. People feed these animals out of kindness, but doing so only are then captured and adopted.

What this question is testing

Agree/Disagree

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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The question
5.

Sharita’s and Chad’s statements provide the most support for the claim that they agree about which one

Answer choices

  1. Half Scope1% picked this

    It is usually wrong to feed

    While Chad would agree with this statement, Sharita does not address it.

  2. Correct95% picked this

    There are more stray cats than there

    Why this is right

    Both Sharita and Chad would agree with this statement.

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

  3. Half Scope3% picked this

    Stray cats are a problem because of the risk they pose

    While Chad would agree with this statement, Sharita does not address the risk that stray cats pose to humans.

  4. Half Scope0% picked this

    Stray cats spread diseases to other

    While Chad would agree with this statement, Sharita does not address it.

  5. Half Scope0% picked this

    It is mainly out of kindness that people feed

    While Chad would agree with this statement, Sharita does not address it.

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