Critical Reasoning

Can someone tell me how he/she thinks on a breakdown of Premise/Conclusion etc...
What are you supposed to think .. just want to match it up with mine.
Hope it is not too silly

The ice on the front windshield of the car had formed when moisture condensed during the night. The ice melted quickly after the car was warmed up the next morning because the defrosting vent, which blows on the front windshield, was turned on full force


Qs2

The cotton farms of Country Q became so productive that the market could not absorb all that they
produced. Consequently, cotton prices fell. The government tried to boost cotton prices by offering farmers who took 25 percent of their cotton acreage out of production direct support payments up to a specified maximum per farm.


Qs3
A recent report determined that although only three percent of drivers on Maryland highways equipped their vehicles with radar detectors, thirty-three percent of all vehicles ticketed for exceeding the speed limit were equipped with them. Clearly, drivers who equip their vehicles with radar detectors are more likely to exceed the speed limit regularly than are drivers who do not.




Appreciate your help

Q1:

Conclusion: Ice melted b/c the vent was turned on full force
Evidence: Ice formed from condensation; ice melted after car was warmed up
Assumption: Ice didn't melt for other reason

Q2:

Conclusion: Gov't boosting prices w/payments to farmers who limited production by 25%
Evidence: Cotton prices fell b/c there was too much production
Assumption: Demand staying the same; limiting by 25% is enough to remedy prices

Q3:

Conclusion: Drivers w/radar are MORE likely to speed regularly.
Evidence: 3% have radar; 33% of ticketed drivers have radar.
Assumptions: Anything that links the ticketed drivers with speeding "regularly".

VivianKerr wrote:Q1:


Q3:

Conclusion: Drivers w/radar are MORE likely to speed regularly.
Evidence: 3% have radar; 33% of ticketed drivers have radar.
Assumptions: Anything that links the ticketed drivers with speeding "regularly".

Please elaborate on Q3 assumptions

I could infer " Radar is only the parameter appreciating spped"

Vivian

Do you have notes on how you follow this structure for CR
This kind of making notes is helpful may be more tips will help
Please suggest

VivianKerr wrote:Q1:

Conclusion: Ice melted b/c the vent was turned on full force
Evidence: Ice formed from condensation; ice melted after car was warmed up
Assumption: Ice didn't melt for other reason

Q2:

Conclusion: Gov't boosting prices w/payments to farmers who limited production by 25%
Evidence: Cotton prices fell b/c there was too much production
Assumption: Demand staying the same; limiting by 25% is enough to remedy prices

Q3:

Conclusion: Drivers w/radar are MORE likely to speed regularly.
Evidence: 3% have radar; 33% of ticketed drivers have radar.
Assumptions: Anything that links the ticketed drivers with speeding "regularly".

Vivian

just for one.. i trying to follow the structure that you have given below and is helpful..

can you correct me on this one.. or o think this is it

34. In 1985 state border colleges in Texas lost the enrollment of more than half, on average, of the Mexican nationals they had previously served each year. Teaching faculties have alleged that this extreme drop resulted from a rise in tuition for international and out-of-state students from $ 40 to $ 120 per credit hour.


Which of the following, if feasible, offers the best prospects for alleviating the problem of the drop in enrollment of Mexican nationals as the teaching faculties assessed it?


A. Providing grants-in-aid to Mexican nationals to study in Mexican universities.
B. Allowing Mexican nationals to study in Texas border colleges and to pay in-state tuition rates, which are the same as the previous international rate
C. Reemphasizing the goals and mission of the Texas state border colleges as serving both in-state students and Mexican nationals
D. Increasing the financial resources of Texas colleges by raising the tuition for in-state students attending state institutions
E. Offering career counseling for those Mexican nationals who graduate from state border colleges and intend to return to Mexico


P: state border coll's lost enrollment of Mex Students > ½ cmprd 2 each year
A : COST and nationality is cause of effect - none other
C : tchrs claim - rise in tution ONLY for (intrnl and outofstate) 40-120/hour

VivianKerr wrote:Q1:

Conclusion: Ice melted b/c the vent was turned on full force
Evidence: Ice formed from condensation; ice melted after car was warmed up
Assumption: Ice didn't melt for other reason

Q2:

Conclusion: Gov't boosting prices w/payments to farmers who limited production by 25%
Evidence: Cotton prices fell b/c there was too much production
Assumption: Demand staying the same; limiting by 25% is enough to remedy prices

Q3:

Conclusion: Drivers w/radar are MORE likely to speed regularly.
Evidence: 3% have radar; 33% of ticketed drivers have radar.
Assumptions: Anything that links the ticketed drivers with speeding "regularly".