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Archaeologists are currently analyzing plant remains found at a site that was last occupied more than 10,000 years ago. If the plants were cultivated, then the people who occupied the site discovered agriculture thousands of years before any other people are known to have done so. On tbe other band, if the plants were wild - that is, uncultivated - then the people who occupied the site ate a wider variety of wild plants than did any other people at the time.
The statements above, if true, most strongly support which one of tbe following?
Plant remains
Either X can happen or Y can happen
In any case, people did something that had not been done before at that time.
Which ond the following can be inferred from the argument given above?
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(A) The archaeologists analyzing the plant remains at the site will be able to determine whether the plants were cultivated or were wild.
We don’t know whether archaeologists will be able to conclude whether plan remains were cultivated or were wild. No such information is given in passage
Reject
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(B) The people who occupied the site used some plants in ways that no other people did at that time.
Hint : because in argument no side can be sure, so either option should be light by using words : some , few so that option can not be challenged OR they can assume by saying IF xxx then YY
In option B : Used some plants: light usage
In ways: Here they didn’t mention whether used as cultivation OR used to eat wild plants
This option can not be rejected as this option can be applicable to X or Y
I feel strong for Option B , Lets look at other options
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(C) If the people who occupied the site had reached a more advanced stage in the use of wild plants than any other people at the time, then the plants found at the site were uncultivated.
Here the option tries to conclude that plants were uncultivated.
What if even people reached at advanced stage in cultivation, still this plant could be wild plant
There is no where in the mentioned that people could be advanced in cultivation Or could only eat wild plants
Both can exisit at the same time as well as nothing is given in argument about this.
Confidentially reject
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(D) If the people who occupied the site discovered agriculture thousands of years before people anywhere else are known to have done so, then there are remains of cultivated plants at the site.
Again , If xx, then Yy.
Lets read carefully:
Again same reasoning as explanined in C,
There is nothing given in agument that Both pssobilities can not exisit at the same time
Confidentially reject
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(E) It is more likely that the people who occupied the site discovered agriculture thousands of years before people anywhere else did than it is that they ate a wider variety of wild plants than any other
people at the time.
X more likely than Y
Why? No reasoning can support this claim.
Easily reject.