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Find the assumption that, if added, guarantees the conclusion follows.
Answers that only partly bridge the gap, leaving the conclusion unproven.
Identify the new term in the conclusion and pick the choice that links it to the evidence.
Assuming the truth of the passage, one can conclude from it that the number of adolescent boys with asthma is approximately equal to the number of adolescent girls with asthma, if one also knows that
a tendency toward asthma is
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children who develop asthma before
10% picked this
there are approximately equal numbers
Why this is right
Answer C is correct.
Skill tested: Sufficient Assumption · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.
78% picked this
the development of asthma in
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the percentage of adults with
7% picked this
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