Answer:
B. No fallacy
Explanation:
First of, we need to know what a fallacy is. A fallacy is a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound arguments.
A sound argument is an argument in which the truth in the premises are used to deduce the conclusions. While an unsound argument, makes use of premises that are not true.
With these, we can determine if the argument in the question was a sound argument. If it was, it won't be fallacious.
There is truth in the fact that the slim tea made Barbara loose 15 pounds after taking it for the stated period of time.
Therefore, concluding that someone with the same buildup as Barbara will have the same results, after taking the tea for the same period of time, is logical and not fallacious. This is because the premise is a true fact that has been tested, and the conclusion was drawn from the true premise.
This makes the argument a sound argument, with no fallacy
Answer: true
Explanation: One factor that seems to cause baby boomers to hark back to the Carter administration is high gasoline prices. When people think of Carter-era inflation, they often connect it to those high prices and the high world price of oil starting in 1973 and increasing, with fits and starts, through the 1970s. But one increased price does not inflation make. We can’t tell anything about inflation by looking at specific prices.
It is true that when a country such as the United States is a net importer of oil, an increase in the price of oil will, all else equal, cause our real GDP to be lower than otherwise. Go back to the equation of exchange discussed earlier. With slightly lower real GDP than otherwise, the price level, and therefore inflation, is higher than otherwise. But today the United States is only a small net importer of oil and as recently as late 2019 was a slight net exporter. So an increase in the price oil simply helps domestic producers to about the same extent that it hurts domestic consumers. The net effect on real US GDP is close to zero.
There’s one caveat to the above. Any government policy that causes waste makes real GDP lower than otherwise and, therefore, causes the price level to be somewhat higher than otherwise. The wasteful policy that is one of the factors in the recent increase in gasoline prices is the federal government’s policy on ethanol, which began during the George W. Bush administration. Although I can’t go into a detailed explanation here, the federal government’s requirement that refiners use ethanol in gasoline adds 30 cents to the price per gallon. Not all of that 30 cents was added recently. But the recently increased price of waivers that allow refiners to avoid using car-destroying ethanol has accounted for some of the recent increase in gasoline prices.
The role of a devil’s advocate in a constructive conflict is
that they are likely to be responsible of providing or criticizing ideas that
each members have laid out on and that they are also likely to point out
problems whether big or small.
