QUESTION TEXT: Dog owner: In general, large dogs need…
QUESTION TYPE: Necessary Assumption
CONCLUSION: Large dogs will likely be less troublesome than small dogs if the owner has limited time to exercise them.
REASONING: When dogs don’t get intensive enough exercise, they get troublesome. Large dogs need less intensive exercise than small dogs.
ANALYSIS: This argument is based on the intensity of exercise needed by different dogs. But if you look at the final conclusion, it never mentions intensity – only time commitment. So the necessary assumption is that more intensive exercise requires more time.
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- This answer might be appealing because it mentions frequency of exercise, which is a time measurement. But it relates it to fitness, and we are not looking at fitness of the dog – we want to know about intensity of exercise because that’s our link to how troublesome a dog will be.
Negation: There is no evidence that dogs who exercise more often are more likely to stay fit.
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