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henryhenry
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Marine biology had hypothesized that lobsters kept together traps eat one another in response to hunger. Periodic checking of lobster traps,however,has revealed instances of lobsters sharing traps together for weeks. Eight lobsters even shared one trap together for two months without eating one another. The marine biologists' hypothesis,therefore, is clearly wrong.
The arguement against the marine biologists' hypothesis is based on which one of the following assumptions?
A) Lobsters not caught in lobster traps have been observed eating one another.
b) Two months is the longest known period during which eight or more lobsters have been trapped together.
c) It is unusual to find as many as eight lobsters caught together in one single trap.
d)Members of the other marine species sometimes eat their own kind when no other food source are available
e) Any food that the eight lobsters in the trap might have obtained was not enough to ward off hunger.
Please,give reason for your answer.
Thanks.
The arguement against the marine biologists' hypothesis is based on which one of the following assumptions?
A) Lobsters not caught in lobster traps have been observed eating one another.
b) Two months is the longest known period during which eight or more lobsters have been trapped together.
c) It is unusual to find as many as eight lobsters caught together in one single trap.
d)Members of the other marine species sometimes eat their own kind when no other food source are available
e) Any food that the eight lobsters in the trap might have obtained was not enough to ward off hunger.
Please,give reason for your answer.
Thanks.
As you say, 'The argument against the marine biologists is that ' lobsters donot eat each other if hungry'.' That is, the assumption is that the lobsters were hungry. E should therefore be the answer.
