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Can someone explain why E could be wrong? While I agree D is a good answer, I'm not being able to reject E completely.

If we negate E, the ones who did see the tiger are experienced naturalists. Why would naturalists be wrong?
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Can someone explain why E could be wrong? While I agree D is a good answer, I'm not being able to reject E completely.

If we negate E, the ones who did see the tiger are experienced naturalists. Why would naturalists be wrong?

IF you negate E. Those who have reported sighting of the Tasmanian tigers ARE experienced naturalist. Who can say "experienced" naturalist can "correctly spot" a Tasmanian tiger. Even if they are, they can lie about it? This is a lot of making up story just to explain the answers. Typically, if you have to make up so much story to justify an answer, the answer probably is false.

D on another hand.

If the tigers DID make a major move and adapted to a different habitat. Conclusion is fault. The tigers are NOT extinct. (No stories needed, just common logic)
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If we negated option A -Sheep farming didn't drove the last Tasmanian tigers to starvation by chasing them from their natural habitat.
It will shatter our conclusion right then why this option is wrong?
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If we negated option A -Sheep farming didn't drove the last Tasmanian tigers to starvation by chasing them from their natural habitat.
It will shatter our conclusion right then why this option is wrong?

Why do we need to negate any answer option here? There is no need at all. According to my limited knowledge, we only negate when the conclusion of an argument is unknown or very complicated. There is nothing as such here. A is not even related. Even after negating it, it remained unrelated. Concentrate on the conclusion—what the naturalist wants to convey.

(A) is not necessary for the naturalist's argument. The essential point is that the habitat was taken over, leading to the extinction of the Tasmanian tiger.

(D) captures the main idea. If the Tasmanian tiger adapted to a different habitat, it could still exist, undermining the naturalist's conclusion.
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at first glance stuck among option D and Option E: but lets find out which one is worng among these 2: option e says the one who saw were inexperience, which actually weaken the validity of people who saw the tiger. on the other hand option D: states the unstated assumption that the tiger have not moved to some other place. if this were found to be false then, the claim that tiger has been extinct would fall apart.


for any assumption question, we have to find the conclusion first, and then we have to find how it is supported.
so, here the conclusion is; "the claim that the Tasmanian tiger is not extinct is flase"

how is this conclusion supported?
-by saying that the habitate of this tiger is ruined and no one has ever seen the tracks tiger.
-no hard proof of its existence has been found by naturalist
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