I think I see where I went wrong in my understanding of this question. When I read the stimulus I noted that the person had observed 38 beetles in 1985 and 10 in 1989. For some reason by the time I got to answer choice A, I had a hard time connecting the word " see " to the premise which t...

I think the issue with this question , and what certainly confused me , was I thought there was a shift in meaning with the word "waste". As first , I thought they were talking about environmental waste and then wasting tax payer dollars. That's what makes the second part of the argument ...