Joshua: It is cause for alarm that over half of the people in this state reported in a survey that they knew someone who had been a victim of a crime.
Laura: But each person surveyed probably knows a hundred people. Someone will reply in the affirmative even if they know just one person out of one-hundred acquaintances who has been the victim of a crime, even a petty theft. If over half of those surveyed knew someone who was the victim of a crime, the crime rate would still be less than 1%, which is not high enough to cause alarm.
Laura's argument relies on the assumption that
A) the crime rate rarely goes above one percent.
Incorrectsupport Laura's argument but cant be an assumption
B) Joshua is accurately reporting the statistics he presents.
Incorrectirrelevant
C) the number of people who know someone who is a victim of crime is always higher than fifty percent of the population.
Incorrectrestate Joshua's argument
D) awareness of a crime committed against an acquaintance generates more fear than does knowledge of crime statistics.
Incorrectadditional info
E)
normally, crime victims are not found only in certain areas of the state among certain isolated groups of people. Correctif victims were not in a isolated groups of people, they should be in general people who know each other, strengthen laura's argument
possible assumption
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