Jesse argued in his speech that drug use really isn't a problem among teens because hardly anyone he

knows has even tried drugs.

In this argument Jesse's friends are used as examples, but this reasoning by
example fails because the examples are
A) unrepresentative.
B) analogous.
C) hypothetical.
D) false.
E) aggregate.


A

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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