#14 - It is inaccurate to say that a diet high in refined sugar cannot cause adult onset diabetes,

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Complete Question Explanation

Parallel Reasoning. Cause and Effect. 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):

This explanation is still in progress. Please post any questions below!

[victoria1234]

I dont get how
~SETTLE UNEVENLY AND ~CRACK -> POURED GROUND WET
equals to
~SETTLE UNEVENLY->~POURED GROUND WET OR CRACK.
Isnt this incorrect as it violates the rule of 'contrapositive'??
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[Luke Haqq]

Hi victoria1234!

I'm not sure where the "settled unevenly," "crack," and "poured ground wet" language is coming from--I'm not seeing that in the stimulus nor in any of the answer choices. But I can embellish on the right answer choice. In the stimulus, we have the following conditional reasoning:

Diet high in refined sugar Overweight Diabetes

More abstractly, we have A B C, and the conclusion is that "It is inaccurate to say that A cannot cause C."

That's the same reasoning as we have in answer choice (D). The conditional reasoning in that answer choice can be represented as:

Inferior motor oil Engine value deterioration Poorer gas mileage

In addition, the conclusion matches up, which is that "It is incorrect to say that inferior motor oil cannot cause a car to get poorer gasoline mileage."