Logical Reasoning

PT16 · S2 · Q1 The city’s center for disease control

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The city’s center for disease control reports that the rabies epidemic is more serious now than it was two years ago: 2 years ago less than 25 percent of the local raccoon population was infected, whereas today the infection has spread to more than 50 percent of the raccoon population.

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.

1.

Which one of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the apparent discrepancy between the two reports?

  1. The number of cases of

    Trap

    12% picked this

  2. Correct

    A significant proportion of the

    Why this is right

    Answer B is correct.

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

    72% picked this

  3. The symptoms of distemper, another

    Trap

    13% picked this

  4. Since the outbreak of the

    Trap

    2% picked this

  5. The number of confirmed cases

    Trap

    1% picked this

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