There are many agricultural regions

Answer choices

1. A

   No Distinction4% picked this

   Pumpkins are usually grown to reach maturity

   This isn't giving us any sort of fact that makes the regions where we grow most of our pumpkins sound better than the region where we don't grow most of our pumpkins.

   4%
2. B

   Deepens Paradox, if anything1% picked this

   Pumpkins depend on bees for pollination, and bees are active only

   This potentially doesn't have any effect. After all, both the regions where we grow pumpkins and the regions where we don't both presumably have warm summer weather when the bees can pollinate the pumpkin crops. But to the extent that it's saying, "It's better to grow pumpkins where you have warm weather", it would only deepen the paradox, since it seems like the region where we grow most of our pumpkins is colder than the regions where we don't.

   1%
3. C

   Deepens Paradox4% picked this

   More pumpkins are sold to consumers in regions of North America with long growing seasons than to those in

   If more pumpkins were sold to consumers in the short growing season region (long, cold winters), that could work as an answer. We could say, "even though there's a risk of frost damage in these regions, we grow most of our pumpkins here because most pumpkin buyers live in these regions (it's easier to distribute the pumpkins, the shorter the distance from farm to consumer)." But this goes the opposite direction. We mysteriously grow most pumpkins in regions that have frost damage risk, even though most pumpkins are sold to people in the regions that don't have frost damage risk.

   4%
4. D

   Correct83% picked this

   Prolonged cold temperatures kill soil-borne fungus and other sources of disease that would kill or

   Why this is right

   Here we got what we wanted ... something good about the regions where we grow pumpkins, to justify our otherwise weird decision to grow them in regions that have higher risk of frost damage. This is saying, "the higher risk of frost damage is worth it, because the advantage we get out of growing pumpkins in these regions with long, cold winters is that the cold winter kills off potential crop diseases." If we grew more pumpkins in the warmer regions with longer growing seasons, we'd have no risk of frost damage, but we might have a much higher risk of diseases killing or seriously damaging the pumpkins.

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

   83%
5. E

   Deepens Paradox, if Anything7% picked this

   Most of the pumpkin seed used by growers in North America is produced in areas where the growing season is long, and plants used

   Given that seed production takes place in a greenhouse, it doesn't really matter what sort of climate it's done in. But this answer overall makes it feel more like the longer growing season regions (where we don't grow pumpkins) is where seed production happens. So that makes it more confusing that we don't grow pumpkins in those regions (we make the seeds there, and there's no risk of frost damage).

   7%