Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT15 S2 Q10 Explanation

Ten thousand years ago many communities

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

Ten thousand years ago many communities in western Asia stopped procuring food by hunting and gathering and began instead to cultivate food. Archaeological evidence reveals that compared to their hunter-gatherer forebears, the early agricultural peoples ate a poorly balanced these peoples never returned to hunting and gathering.

What this question is testing

Paradox

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
10.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to explain why the agricultural peoples of western Asia never returned

Answer choices

  1. Trap1% picked this

    The plants and animals that the agricultural peoples began to cultivate continued to exist

  2. Trap1% picked this

    Both hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists sometimes depended on stored and preserved foods instead

  3. Correct94% picked this

    An increase in population density at the time required a higher food production rate than hunting

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

  4. Trap0% picked this

    Thousands of years ago similar shifts from hunting and gathering to agriculture occurred in many other

  5. Trap4% picked this

    The physical labor involved in agriculture burns more calories than does that needed for

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