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Answer choices

1. A

   Correct85% picked this

   infers that a food will have a certain property simply because one of the food?s

   Why this is right

   The argument infers that Honey Oat Puffs will have a certain property (being healthful) because one ingredient (whole-grain oats) is healthful.

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

   85%
2. B

   Necessary vs. Sufficient8% picked this

   treats a property that is sufficient to make a food healthful as a property that a food must have

   This describes a conditional logic flaw that does not appear in this argument. The evidence doesn't explicitly describe any property that is sufficient to make a food healthful. And the argument doesn't conclude that any "property" is necessary for a food to be healthful. The argument does assume that one healthful ingredient is sufficient to make the entire cereal healthful, but that's not what this answer is describing.

   8%
3. C

   Equivocation1% picked this

   confuses two distinct meanings of the

   There's no indication that the word "healthful" is intended to mean two different things. The word is used the same way throughout the argument.

   1%
4. D

   Out of Scope: tends to be3% picked this

   concludes that a food contributes to health simply because that food tends to be part of the

   Neither the evidence nor the conclusion describes anything that already "tends to be" part of the diets of healthy people. This answer would be more correct if it stated that the argument "concludes that a food would make people's diets more healthful simply because one ingredient contributes to health."

   3%
5. E

   Circular Reasoning2% picked this

   contains a premise that presupposes the truth of

   Neither of the premises state or presuppose that most people would have more healthful diets if they ate Honey Oat Puffs for breakfast.

   2%