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Consider the following example of inductive reasoning: In September 2019, each student in Mrs. Newsome’s first grade class (Hank James Elementary in Woolett, Massachusetts) was given three 2 oz. scoops of ice cream: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one bubble-gum tutti frutti.  2 of the 26 students preferred chocolate, 4 preferred vanilla, and 20 preferred bubble-gum tutti frutti.  Researchers concluded that, with respect to ice cream flavors, American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to chocolate or vanilla. Consider the following modification of the argument, and indicate if it strengthens the argument (makes it more likely that the conclusion is true), weakens the argument (makes this less likely), or has no effect.  Then explain why you think this is so: The pink dye in the bubble gum tutti frutti ice cream is a substance known to the state of California to cause cancer.

Consider the following example of inductive reasoning: In September 2019, each student in Mrs. Newsome’s first grade class (Hank James Elementary in Woolett, Massachusetts) was given three 2 oz. scoops of ice cream: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one bubble-gum tutti frutti.  2 of the 26 students preferred chocolate, 4 preferred vanilla, and 20 preferred bubble-gum tutti frutti.  Researchers concluded that, with respect to ice cream flavors, American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to chocolate or vanilla. Consider the following modification of the argument, and indicate if it strengthens the argument (makes it more likely that the conclusion is true), weakens the argument (makes this less likely), or has no effect.  Then explain why you think this is so: The 26 test subjects were selected not just from the first grade, but from the school’s second through fifth grades as well.

Consider the following example of inductive reasoning: In September 2019, each student in Mrs. Newsome’s first grade class (Hank James Elementary in Woolett, Massachusetts) was given three 2 oz. scoops of ice cream: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one bubble-gum tutti frutti.  2 of the 26 students preferred chocolate, 4 preferred vanilla, and 20 preferred bubble-gum tutti frutti.  Researchers concluded that, with respect to ice cream flavors, American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to chocolate or vanilla. Consider the following modification of the argument, and indicate if it strengthens the argument (makes it more likely that the conclusion is true), weakens the argument (makes this less likely), or has no effect.  Then explain why you think this is so: It was concluded that five times as many American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to vanilla, and twice as many prefer vanilla to chocolate.

Consider the following example of inductive reasoning: In September 2019, each student in Mrs. Newsome’s first grade class (Hank James Elementary in Woolett, Massachusetts) was given three 2 oz. scoops of ice cream: one vanilla, one chocolate, and one bubble-gum tutti frutti.  2 of the 26 students preferred chocolate, 4 preferred vanilla, and 20 preferred bubble-gum tutti frutti.  Researchers concluded that, with respect to ice cream flavors, American children prefer bubble gum tutti frutti to chocolate or vanilla. Consider the following modification of the argument, and indicate if it strengthens the argument (makes it more likely that the conclusion is true), weakens the argument (makes this less likely), or has no effect.  Then explain why you think this is so: It was concluded that students at Hank James Elementary prefer bubble gum tutti frutti ice cream to chocolate or vanilla.

For the following argument: Select symbols and be sure to define them accurately.  [2 points] Put the argument into standard form as a hypothetical or disjunctive syllogism.  [4 points] Identify the form (e.g., “affirming the necessary condition,” or “denying the disjunct”).  [2 points] Determine whether it is valid or invalid.  If the argument has a missing premise or conclusion, complete the argument to make it come out valid, putting the added proposition in square brackets.  [2 points] If someone had been snooping around here last night, there’d be footprints, right?  Well, those are clearly footprints.  So someone must have been snooping around here last night.

For the following argument: Select symbols and be sure to define them accurately.  [2 points] Put the argument into standard form as a hypothetical or disjunctive syllogism.  [4 points] Identify the form (e.g., “affirming the necessary condition,” or “denying the disjunct”).  [2 points] Determine whether it is valid or invalid.  If the argument has a missing premise or conclusion, complete the argument to make it come out valid, putting the added proposition in square brackets.  [2 points] You say you’ve found out that your husband has been working deep into the night, night after night, on a project with a colleague from work?  That must come as a relief.  Because it was either that or he has gotten romantically involved with another woman

The following question and answer are written correctly in Spanish.  Choose true or false. ¿A qué hora es la clase de inglés?  Es a las cuatro en punto.  

Which is the correct translation for:  I do not like art.

Which Spanish question is needed to get this answer:  Yo soy optimista y muy trabajadora.

Consider the following argument: I thought I was allergic to cats, but twice this week I handled cats without developing a rash.  So my rashes must have been caused by something else. Now consider this claim: My rashes weren’t caused by cats. Indicate two things: Is the claim an unsupported premise, a supported premise, the argument’s conclusion, or neither a premise nor a conclusion (NPNC)? And is the claim being made explicitly, implicitly, or is it neither stated nor assumed (NSNA)?