Plant species differ in that renewed growth in spring can be triggered by day
length or by temperature or else by a combination of both. Day length is the
same, year after year, for any given date. Therefore, any plant species that starts
to grow again on widely different dates in different years resumes growth at least
in part in response to temperature.
Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its pattern of reasoning
to the argument above?
(A) In Xandia, medical assistant trainees must either complete a formal training
course or work for one year under the close supervision of a physician. Since
few physicians are willing to act as supervisors, it must be true that most
medical assistant trainees in Xandia take the training course.
(B) In the Crawford area, easterly winds mean rain will come and westerly winds
mean dry weather will come; winds from other directions do not occur.
Therefore, since it is currently raining in Crawford, there must be an easterly
wind blowing there now.
(C) Some landfills charge garbage companies by volume only, some charge by
weight only, and all others use a formula sensitive to both volume and
weight. So if at a particular landfill the charges for two particular loads of
equal volume dumped on the same day are different, weight must determine,
or help determine, charges at that landfill.
(D) Depending on volume of business, either one or two or three store detectives
are needed for adequate protection against shoplifting. Therefore, if on any
particular day store management has decided that three detectives will be
needed, it must be because business that day is expected to be heavy.
(E) A call is more likely to be heard if it is loud rather than soft, if it is highpitched
rather than low-pitched, and especially if it is both loud and highpitched.
Therefore, anyone whose call goes unheard in spite of being at
maximum loudness should try to raise the pitch of the call.
length or by temperature or else by a combination of both. Day length is the
same, year after year, for any given date. Therefore, any plant species that starts
to grow again on widely different dates in different years resumes growth at least
in part in response to temperature.
Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its pattern of reasoning
to the argument above?
(A) In Xandia, medical assistant trainees must either complete a formal training
course or work for one year under the close supervision of a physician. Since
few physicians are willing to act as supervisors, it must be true that most
medical assistant trainees in Xandia take the training course.
(B) In the Crawford area, easterly winds mean rain will come and westerly winds
mean dry weather will come; winds from other directions do not occur.
Therefore, since it is currently raining in Crawford, there must be an easterly
wind blowing there now.
(C) Some landfills charge garbage companies by volume only, some charge by
weight only, and all others use a formula sensitive to both volume and
weight. So if at a particular landfill the charges for two particular loads of
equal volume dumped on the same day are different, weight must determine,
or help determine, charges at that landfill.
(D) Depending on volume of business, either one or two or three store detectives
are needed for adequate protection against shoplifting. Therefore, if on any
particular day store management has decided that three detectives will be
needed, it must be because business that day is expected to be heavy.
(E) A call is more likely to be heard if it is loud rather than soft, if it is highpitched
rather than low-pitched, and especially if it is both loud and highpitched.
Therefore, anyone whose call goes unheard in spite of being at
maximum loudness should try to raise the pitch of the call.
