Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: The popular notion that a tree's age can be determined by

conclusion is : So only if the temperature in the Brazilian ash's environment never exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit will its rings be a reliable measure of the tree's age.


now we need to defend this and option E does it correctly and it says "The number of rings that will be lost when the temperature exceeds 95 degrees Fahrenheit is not predictable"

key here is to determine the age of a tree by using the number of rings in a tree.

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