Critical Reasoning

Last year the county park system failed to generate enough revenue to cover its costs. Any business should be closed if it is unprofitable, but county parks are not businesses. Therefore, the fact that county parks are unprofitable does not by itself justify closing them.
The pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most closely paralleled in which one of the following?
(A) A prime-time television series should be canceled if it fails to attract a large audience, but the small audience attracted by the documentary series is not sufficient reason to cancel it, since it does not air during prime time.
(B) Although companies that manufacture and market automobiles in the United States must meet stringent air-quality standards, the OKESA company should be exempt from these standards since it manufactures bicycles in addition to automobiles.
(C) Although the province did not specifically intend to prohibit betting on horse races when it passed a law prohibiting gambling, such betting should be regarded as being prohibited because it is a form of gambling.
(D) Even though cockatiels are not, strictly speaking, members of the parrot family, they should be fed the same diet as most parrots since the cockatiel’s dietary needs are so similar to those of parrots.
(E) Since minors are not subject to the same criminal laws as are adults, they should not be subject to the same sorts of punishments as those that apply to adults.


Answer please and why?

I would go with E)

A minor has committed a crime, any adult committing a crime should be punished, but since minors are not adults they are excluded for the same type of punishment

I would go with
(A) A prime-time television series should be canceled if it fails to attract a large audience, but the small audience attracted by the documentary series is not sufficient reason to cancel it, since it does not air during prime time.

I say (E)

The statement is differentiating b/w parks and businesses and that difference is used to disprove a certain course of action.

(E) differentiates b/w minors and adults, explaining that minors are not subject to the same criminal laws as are adults. Because of this difference, a certain course of action should not be followed (i.e. same sorts of punishments)

I'm going with A.

The problem I see with E is that it doesn't parallel it quite as well as A. E requires a leap from laws to consequences that is never stated.

The argument is since A+B then C, but A+D does not equal C.

IMO E..

OA pl?

I say E.

How can we differentiate between law and punishments? If something is considered a crime according to the law, the law will also prescribe a reasonable punishment as well. And using the same cause-effect relationship lawyers/cops are able to predict the sentence; when they say "You are looking at 7 years minimum". So if we have juvenile laws, they will also prescribe punishment keeping the age in mind.

Forget about parallelism with the stem, reasoning in E is flawed, and thus can never be the correct answer.

The correct answer is A

can anyone pls confirm the answer for this one..

WHAT IS OA

I say A

Last year the county park system failed to generate enough revenue to cover its costs. Any business should be closed if it is unprofitable, but county parks are not businesses. Therefore, the fact that county parks are unprofitable does not by itself justify closing them.

TRANSLATION

B sucked. If anything A sucks then they should be closed, but B is not A. Therefore, since B sucks no reason to be held to same standard of A.

The pattern of reasoning in the argument above is most closely paralleled in which one of the following?

(A) A prime-time television series should be canceled if it fails to attract a large audience, but the small audience attracted by the documentary series is not sufficient reason to cancel it, since it does not air during prime time.

If A sucks, it should be closed. B sucks, but since it is not A, it should not be closed.

(E) Since minors are not subject to the same criminal laws as are adults, they should not be subject to the same sorts of punishments as those that apply to adults.

B not same as A because they are not A.

This is a medium question. Just as a note - all the reasoning above isn't exactly what you call blacks law dictionary air tight. So flawed or unflawed reasoning isn't really what you're looking for.

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It's A.

I would go with E as the correct answer