Flawed Parallel Reasoning Questions - - Question 33

The report released by the interior ministry states that within the past 5 years the national land reclamation progra...

Tyler808 January 16, 2022

I got this question right which was E, but I looked at C at a first glance.

Could you explain why C would be incorrect?

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Jay-Etter January 16, 2022

We could break down the structure of the argument like this:
1) Claim (data given in report)
2) If claim is true -> successful program
3) Person X says program couldn't be successful
Conclusion) Claim not true and data given is inaccurate.

While E matches this nearly perfectly, C is missing the second step, or the conditional statement. E has this conditional statement when it says if Adams competed then Lee couldn't win. C only has a claim, and a person who says the claim couldn't be true, so therefore the claim is false.