Lesson: Challenging Critical/Logical Reasoning - 04t01

Common Wrong Answer Types: Outside The Scope, continued

Which of the following is an assumption underlying the conclusion of the passage?

Now read the passage together with the question stem and answer choices and click on any choice that you believe is outside the scope.

	Military actions involving our forces can be instigated by any of a number of different factors.
	Our buildup of weapons systems and combat personnel has prevented our adversaries from increasing their own spending on defense.
	The increased defense spending of the past ten years has lessened the need for significant military expenditure in future decades.
	At the present time, state-of-the-art weapons systems and the augmentation of combat personnel are equally important to a nation's resources.
	The number of military actions involving our forces would have been greater in the past decade if we had not increased our defense spending.

Countinue

Outside the scope answers are probably the most frequently appearing wrong answer choices in a Reasoning section. Therefore, it's very important that before you begin evaluating the answer choices, you are clear on what the scope of the argument is.

Now let's take a look at another common wrong answer choice.