INSTRUCTIONS: Select the best answer for each argument. Twenty percent of the women attending Ponderosa College are beautiful. Since Charlotte attends Ponderosa College, it follows that twenty percent of her is beautiful

A) Hasty generalization.

B) Division.

C) Amphiboly.

D) Composition.

E) Accident.


B

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