PT155 S2 Q5 ExplanationSeasonal allergy symptoms are the

Answer choices, explained

1. A

   Too Strong: prevent0% picked this

   Medicines that minimize seasonal allergy symptoms prevent people from inhaling large

   First of all, this makes zero common sense: a medicine that prevents you from inhaling something? Medicines don't have the power to select what you do or don't breathe. If medicine prevented people from inhaling large amounts of pollen, then it would be totally effective as a way to avoid allergy symptoms. Since we're told that medicine can minimize symptoms but a more effective strategy is staying inside, we don't have any grounds to think that medicine keeps the pollen from ever entering your body.

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2. B

   Too Strong: most0% picked this

   Most types of pollen do not cause seasonal

   We don't know anything about any different types of pollen, so we have no means to say that anything is true of more than 50% of pollen types.

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3. C

   Correct98% picked this

   People who stay indoors on dry, windy days during allergy season are unlikely to inhale

   Why this is right

   This sounds like the Flip the Causal Difference-Maker inference we predicted. We were told that inhaling large amounts of pollen triggers allergy symptoms. And we were told that staying indoors is a good way to avoid allergy symptoms. Thus, we can infer that staying indoors is a good way to avoid inhaling large amounts of pollen. It would be like saying, "When Bob uses the computer in his office late at night, he tends to spend too much money via online shopping. One effective way we can cut down on wasteful online shopping is to shut the door to his office in the evening." The implication is that "if he shuts the door to his office, he won't end up using his computer late at night". If X causes Y, and Z is a good way to avoid Y, then Z is a good way to avoid X.

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

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4. D

   Too Strong: tend to1% picked this

   People who take medicines that minimize seasonal allergy symptoms tend to stay indoors on dry, windy

   We don't know anything when it comes to people who take meds for their allergies, other than that some of them have their symptoms minimized by taking such meds. We can't say that on more than 50% of dry, windy days during allergy season, people who take allergy meds stay indoors. In fact the passage told us that it's often 'impractical" to try to stay indoors all day, so we have a reason to think that people aren't tending to do this.

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5. E

   Out of Scope: air filters0% picked this

   People who experience seasonal allergy symptoms typically use air filters that remove pollen from the

   We never talked about "air filters" at all, so we can't just totally speculate on something for which we have no information.

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