Understanding the argument -
The extinct earliest known ancestor of the cheetah, a large cat now found only in Africa, lived only in what is now western North America when the two continents were conjoined, as fossil skeletons found in North America but nowhere else indicate. - Fact
That ancestor shared certain skeletal features with the cheetah but with no other cat. - Fact
Option Elimination - Inference
A. The cheetah, because of certain distinctive skeletal features, is an efficient predator. - maybe or may not be, but nothing of this sort has been mentioned in the argument. This is "might be a true category", which is wrong because we can't say with 100% certainty whether it's efficient or inefficient.
B. The outward appearance of an animal can be reconstructed from its skeletal structure. The outward appearance is not even discussed in the passage, out of scope.
C. The cheetah's skeletal structure has remained unchanged since prehistoric times. - It might be true,
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The extinct earliest known ancestor of the cheetah, a large cat now found only in Africa, lived only in what is now western North America when the two continents were conjoined, as fossil skeletons found in North America but nowhere else indicate. - Fact
That ancestor shared certain skeletal features with the cheetah but with no other cat. - Fact
Option Elimination - Inference
A. The cheetah, because of certain distinctive skeletal features, is an efficient predator. - maybe or may not be, but nothing of this sort has been mentioned in the argument. This is "might be a true category", which is wrong because we can't say with 100% certainty whether it's efficient or inefficient.
B. The outward appearance of an animal can be reconstructed from its skeletal structure. The outward appearance is not even discussed in the passage, out of scope.
C. The cheetah's skeletal structure has remained unchanged since prehistoric times. - It might be true,
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