Identify the following passage as containing an argument, two arguments, or no argument; if it contains an argument, identify the conclusion(s); and, if it contains two arguments, indicate which argument is the principal argument."If you don't mow your lawn at least once a week, what happens is that when you do mow it, it turns brown later."

What will be an ideal response?


An argument in most contexts for the unstated conclusion that you ought to mow your lawn at least once a week.

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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What is the correct symbolic representation of the following argument? "Manitoba has tourism or a large business community. If Manitoba has tourism, it has a hotel industry, but if it has a large business community, it also has a hotel industry

Thus, Manitoba has a hotel industry just in case it has both tourism and a large business community." A) M v L, M ? I, L ? I .•. M ? L B) M, M ? I ? L ? I .•. I ? (M ? L) C) M v L, (M ? I) ? (L ? I).•. I ? (M ? L)

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During the compression stroke in a single cylinder of a reciprocating piston compressor, which valve is held closed by pressure?

A. intake B. exhaust C. both D. neither

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Externalities are the unintended negative (or in some cases positive) consequences that an economic transaction

between two parties can have on some third party.

a. True b. False

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