Critical Reasoning (CR) | In the past year, there has been a dramatic increase in the

OA is A

We need to provide another reason to weaken the argument.

The number of people killed by alligators may have increased in the past year for some reason other than the increase in the number of humans living in the alligator’s habitat.

(A) This statement properly identifies an alternative rationale (there are more alligators now) and undermines the given explanation.

However,

(C) This point about differing types of harmful wildlife is irrelevant to the argument about alligator
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