Parallel ReasoningDiff: Hardest

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Passage Summary: Even though there are more documentaries made than sci-fi movies, more sci-fi movies actually make money. This means a bigger slice of the sci-fi pie is successful compared to the documentary pie.

Conclusion: A higher percentage of full-length science-fiction films are commercially successful compared to short documentary films.

Reasoning: Even though there are more documentaries produced overall, the absolute number of successful science-fiction films is higher than the absolute number of successful documentaries.

Analysis: The reasoning here is purely mathematical, involving the relationship between raw numbers and percentages. If Group A is larger than Group B, but Group B has more 'successes' in total, then Group B must have a higher success rate (percentage). To find the parallel, look for an answer that uses this exact 'total vs. successful' ratio logic to reach a valid statistical conclusion. The subject matter doesn't matter, but the underlying arithmetic must match perfectly.

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Which one of the following arguments is most similar in its pattern of reasoning to the argument above?

Correct Answer
B
B matches the form: more modern apartments overall than Victorian, yet a greater number of Victorian apartments have bathtubs; hence a higher proportion of Victorian apartments have bathtubs—same count-versus-denominator structure.
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