Logical Reasoning

PT142 · S1 · Q19 If temperatures had dropped below

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If temperatures had dropped below freezing when I was gone last week, the impatiens in my garden would have died.

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.

19.

The pattern of reasoning in which one of the following arguments most closely parallels that in the argument above?

  1. Correct

    If a species is highly

    Why this is right

    Answer A is correct.

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

    86% picked this

  2. If a species thrives in

    Trap

    7% picked this

  3. If a species is introduced

    Trap

    3% picked this

  4. If the introduction of a

    Trap

    3% picked this

  5. If a new species would

    Trap

    1% picked this

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