Critical Reasoning (CR) | Roland: The alarming fact is that 90 percent of the-OG10#139

Roland: The alarming fact is that 90 percent of the people in this country now report that they know someone who isunemployed.

Sharon: But a normal, moderate level of unemployment is 5 percent, with 1 out of 20 workers unemployed. So at any given time if a person knows approximately 50 workers, 1 or more will very likely be unemployed.

Sharon's argument relies on the assumption that

(A) normal levels of unemployment are rarely exceeded
(B) unemployment is not normally concentrated in geographically
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