easy · GMAT Verbal

Argument: "City A has more total crimes than City B. Therefore, City A is a more dangerous place to live than City B." Which of the following describes the most significant flaw in this argument?

1. It presumes that the total number of crimes in each city has been counted with truly equal accuracy.
2. It assumes that crimes are reported to police at the very same rate in both of the cities being compared.
3. It ignores that the reported crime total in any given city can fluctuate substantially from one year to the next.
4. It compares absolute numbers of crimes without considering the relative population sizes of the two cities.
5. It fails to distinguish between serious violent offenses and the far more common category of non-violent property crimes.

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