Critical Reasoning (CR) | Fact: Asthma, a bronchial condition, is much less common ailment than

Option Elimination - This is an inference question, so please be cautious of the outside information. The argument provides percentages, and the standard trap will talk about numbers. Moreover, we have two independent conditions, and the argument has no causal connection; a common trap would be establishing a casualty between the two.

A. Hay fever is a prerequisite for the development of asthma - Trying to establish causality when there is none in the argument. Distortion.

B. Asthma is a prerequisite for the development of hay fever - Trying to establish causality when there is none in the argument. Moreover, it contradicts the argument. Hay fever is more common than asthma, so how come asthma can be a prerequisite for hay fever? Distortion.

C. Those who have neither hay fever nor asthma comprise less than 5 percent of the total population - We have no idea about the "total population. Moreover, we don't even have absolute hay fever and asthma numbers to calculate the percentage.
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