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An argument concludes that the school's new recycling program is a failure because, since its inception, the total amount of trash sent to landfills has increased by 10 percent.
Which one of the following identifies a way in which the argument's premises fail to support its conclusion?
- It assumes the recycling program was meant to be the school's only waste-reduction effort.
- It overlooks the possibility that some material once landfilled is now being incinerated instead.
- It ignores that the school's total waste output may have grown by far more than 10 percent.
- It takes for granted that recycling is the most effective method for reducing landfill waste.
- It assumes that no recycling program could ever reduce landfill waste at all.
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