Logical Reasoning

PT159 · S3 · Q23 Principal: All of our school’s rural students participate

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Principal: All of our school’s rural students participate in the school’s lunch program because they live too far away to go home for lunch, while roughly one half of their urban counterparts also take part in the program.

Your task

Describe the reasoning error the argument actually commits.

Common trap

Answers that name a real logical flaw the argument doesn't actually make.

Winning move

Articulate the gap in the reasoning yourself, then match it to the choice that describes that gap.

23.

The reasoning in the principal's argument is flawed because this argument

  1. takes for granted that a

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    4% picked this

  2. takes for granted that a

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  3. Correct

    ignores the possibility that those

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

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

    84% picked this

  4. ignores the possibility that both

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    4% picked this

  5. at first uses the word

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