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Logic Question
i got a few questions on the LSAT practice exam I was taken wrong and I can't figure out why, let me know if you can figure it out.
questtion 1.
the higher the altitude, the thinner the air. since mexico city's altitude is higher than that of panama city, the air must be thinner in mexico city than in panama city.
which one o fhte following arguments is most similar in its reasoning to the argument above.
I narrowed it down to two choices
A) As one gets older one gets wiser. Since Henrietta is older than her daughter, Henrietta must be wiser than her daughter.
B)The older a tree, the more rings it has. The tree in Lou's yard is older than the tree in Theresa's yard. Therefore, the tree in Lou's yard must have more rings than doe sthe tree in Theresa's yard.
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The answer is A.
The only plausible reasoning i can think of is that it assumes a tree may have more rings as its birth than another tree, thus the reasoning wouldn't necessarily hold for B. But this doesn't make sense to me because by the same token one could be smarter at birth than another. Or the air could be thinner due to some geographic reasons in one place than another. This is the one question that has me really stumped and there are a few others that I'm doubtful about.
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