INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. In a random poll of 400 students from Belview College, 72 percent said that they own a digital camera. Therefore, probably most Belview students own a digital camera

A) Weak analogy.

B) False cause.

C) Composition.

D) Hasty generalization.

E) No fallacy.


E

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