QUESTION TEXT: Bacteria from food can survive for several…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: You don’t need to wash wooden cutting board to prevent contamination. Plastic cutting boards do have to be washed.
REASONING: Bacteria can get into wooden cutting boards right away, leaving the surface free of germs. Germs can survive on the surface of plastic cutting boards for days.
ANALYSIS: Do you like the idea of your cutting board being full of germs? Sounds sketchy to me; I’d rather germs not sink inside my cutting board. At the very least, I’d probably want to wash a wooden board.
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- The argument didn’t claim that plastic boards couldn’t be cleaned. The main point was that wooden boards hardly even had to be cleaned.
- The argument didn’t claim that wooden cutting boards are better. It just said they don’t have to be washed.
- The argument isn’t hurt if there are other ways to contaminate food. This is silly.
- CORRECT. If this is false, then bacteria might reemerge from within wooden cutting boards and contaminate food.
- The point was that wooden cutting board don’t have to be washed.
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