#5 - Altogether, the students in Ms. Tarnowski’s Milton Elementary School class collected more

[Administrator]

Complete Question Explanation

Parallel Flaw. The correct answer choice is (D).

Answer choice (A):

Answer choice (B):

Answer choice (C):

Answer choice (D): This is the correct answer choice.

Answer choice (E):

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[Cflores17]

The way i solved this was by recognizing Whole-to-part flaw

Please let me know if this was the correct way to answer this question. Thanks.

[Luke Haqq]

Hi Cflores17!

Describing it as a whole-to-part flaw seems to make sense. The stimulus is flawed because it assumes that what is true of the whole (the class collected more than any others) is also true of each member of that whole (i.e., every student in that class collected more than others). It's possible, though, that the student that collected the most cans was not in Ms. Tarnowski's class even though her class in total collected more than any other class. This seems to be a flaw that PowerScore refers to as an error in composition and division.