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by AbeNeedsAnswers » Thu May 02, 2019 10:47 am
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Farmer: Several people in the past few years have claimed to have seen a mountain lion in the suburban outskirts—the latest just last month—and, while mountain lions were thought to have been driven from this entire region about twenty years ago, there is no reason for the people who reported seeing a mountain lion to have deliberately concocted a false report. Therefore, local wildlife managers should begin to urgently address the mountain lion's presence.

Which of the following would, if true, most seriously weaken the farmer's argument?

A. Farmers in the suburban outskirts mostly raise cattle and hogs, which when fully grown are generally not attacked by mountain lions.
B. Mountain lions are dissimilar in size and color to other wild animals found near the suburban outskirts.
C. No person who claimed to have seen a mountain lion had anyone else with them at the purported sighting.
D. There have been no regional reports in the past year of mountain lions migrating to the area.
E. Recent surveys show that more than half of the people in the region report that they have never seen a mountain lion before.

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by chandramanshu singh » Sat May 04, 2019 4:44 am
AbeNeedsAnswers wrote:Farmer: Several people in the past few years have claimed to have seen a mountain lion in the suburban outskirts—the latest just last month—and, while mountain lions were thought to have been driven from this entire region about twenty years ago, there is no reason for the people who reported seeing a mountain lion to have deliberately concocted a false report. Therefore, local wildlife managers should begin to urgently address the mountain lion's presence.

Which of the following would, if true, most seriously weaken the farmer's argument?

A. Farmers in the suburban outskirts mostly raise cattle and hogs, which when fully grown are generally not attacked by mountain lions.
B. Mountain lions are dissimilar in size and color to other wild animals found near the suburban outskirts.
C. No person who claimed to have seen a mountain lion had anyone else with them at the purported sighting.
D. There have been no regional reports in the past year of mountain lions migrating to the area.
E. Recent surveys show that more than half of the people in the region report that they have never seen a mountain lion before.

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by deloitte247 » Thu May 09, 2019 6:08 am
OPTION A:- INCORRECT
This doesn't weaken the argument due to the fact that the farmers in this area mostly rear cattle and hogs which are not attacked by mountain lions when they are fully grown does not mean that there are no mountain lions.

OPTION B:- INCORRECT
The size and colour of this mountain lion to other types of mountain lion isn't one of the concerns of this argument and doesn't weaken the farmers argument.

OPTION C:- CORRECT
If true that no person who claimed to have seen a mountain lion had no one else with them at the reported sighting, this provides a doubt to the claim and it can be seen as a concocted false report which will cast a serious weakness to the argument.

OPTION D:- INCORRECT
Well, this information is not needed and doesn't weaken the farmers argument.

OPTION E:- INCORRECT
This doesn't cause weakness to the argument because the fact that more than half of the people in the region has never seen a mountain lion doesn't mean that the several people who claimed to have seen it are lying.
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