Today, I got my AWA score as well: a 5.5

Just want to repeat that I did not put in a lot of effort in AWA but still managed a decent AWA score. All you have to do is pick up a template of your choice from the ones available on this site and practice a couple of arguments using the same.

Cheers

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Analysis of an Argument from OG 12

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Hi Eloka,

Below is how this works:

root of a negative number is real only if the root is odd, (3,5,7,9 etc)

Eg. cube root (-27) or (-27)^(1/3) = -3 or -3*-3*-3 = -27

root in general english refers to square root or ^(1/2)

sqrt(-27) or sqrt(-1) is not allowed and hence imaginary

HTH

IMO A

1) v = 3^x + 1 ; u = 2^x +1

v-u = 3^x-2^x

hence v-u != 2(3^x-2^x) hence sufficient

2) x= 3

does not help

Should be A


Problem with B:

b-a>0

a = -4

b =3>0

3-(-4) = 7>0

a=-4

b= -3<0

-3-(-4) = 1>0
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