Logical Reasoning

PT144 · S4 · Q3 The official listing of an animal species

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The official listing of an animal species as endangered triggers the enforcement of legal safeguards designed to protect endangered species, such as tighter animal export and trade restrictions and stronger antipoaching laws.

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.

3.

Which one of the following, if true, does most to account for the increase in the rate of population decline described above?

  1. The process of officially listing

    Trap

    5% picked this

  2. Public campaigns to save endangered

    Trap

    2% picked this

  3. The number of animal species

    Trap

    1% picked this

  4. Correct

    Animals are more desirable to

    Why this is right

    Answer D is correct.

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

    92% picked this

  5. Poachers find it progressively more

    Trap

    0% picked this

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