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Can anyone explain why option A is not correct here and why Option E is right answer.

Option A suggests that Yawning implies that she's tired however we understand that she's tired as she only loses stuff when she's tired so if she has lost her keys, that means she is tired. The flaw that option E makes clear is that Roberta is irritated only when she's tired doesn't mean Roberta is always irritated when she's tired but can only be irritated if she's tired. Necessary condition = being tired, the passage assumes it as a sufficient condition.
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Roberta is irritable only when she is tired [ (1) Being tired is necessary for irritable] , and loses things only when she is tired[ (2) Being tired is necessary to loose things]. Since she has been yawning all day, and has just lost her keys[ She lost something that means she is tired---from (2)], she is almost certainly irritable[No! She is tired and being tired is only a necessary condition! We can't say that just because she is tired she is irritable(which if true would be a sufficient condition)].

The reasoning above is flawed in that it:

(A) Infers from a correlation between tiredness and yawning that tiredness causes yawning

(B) Assumes the conclusions that is sets out to prove

(C) Generalizes on the basis of a single instance

(D) Takes a necessary condition for Roberta's losing things to be a sufficient condition

(D) Takes a necessary condition for Robert's being irritable to be a sufficient condition
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