#16 - In most of this forest, the expected outbreak of tree-

[Robert Carroll]

Khodi,

The statement in the stimulus about forest fires is only an example of something that could lead to overcrowding. It never says there actually is overcrowding - it states instead that, if something has caused such an overcrowding (like, for instance, suppression of forest fires), then the moths would be beneficial. This is all conditional in form, though - if there is overcrowding, the moths are beneficial. None of that establishes that there is in fact overcrowding. So answer choice (A) posits that the overcrowding is actual, filling in the gap in the argument.

Answer choice (B) refers to mature trees, which aren't discussed in the stimulus and don't appear relevant to the argument.

Robert Carroll

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I hate this question so bad because it uses extremely unhumanly language. like who is talking like this 'has left the forest unnaturally crowded with immature trees. and more than half of the forest in unnaturally crowded with immature trees.'

I think this question would be better answered by a pure logician, but anyway who likes creative writing would find their brain hurt bu this sentence.