INSTRUCTIONS: Select the answer that best characterizes each argument. Standard & Poors, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, AIG, Merrill Lynch, Bank of America-all of these companies continue to pay their top executives huge bonuses. It must be the case that every American company pays its top executives huge bonuses
A) No fallacy.
B) False cause.
C) Hasty generalization.
D) Composition.
E) Accident.
C
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