Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: In university towns, police issue far more parking citations during

­In university towns, police issue far more parking citations during the school year than they do during the times when the students are out of town. Therefore we know that most parking citations in university towns are issued to students. - The flaw is that maybe the tickets are for their parents, visitors, teachers or anybody other than students. 

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

(A) We know that children buy most of the snacks at cinemas, because popcorn sales increase as the proportion of child moviegoers to adult moviegoers increases - the proportion is an issue. May the overall number have decreased, and the number of adults is more drastic than the number of children. 

(B) We know that this houseplant gets more of the sunlight from the window, because it is greener than that houseplant. - No. 

(C) We know that most people who go to a university are studious because most of those people study
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