Read the sentence. after going over the attendance data, i have learned that twenty percent of our students are calling in sick every day, and it would be good to do something to stop this problem. which appeal is the speaker using in the sentence? a. ethos, an appeal based on the speaker’s character b. logos, an appeal based on logic and reason c. pathos, an appeal based on the audiences’ emotion d. eros, an appeal based on love

Based on the argument stated in the question, the speaker is trying to appeal with (B) logos, an appeal based on logic and reason.

We can infer this from the speaker’s statement where they use the attendance data, in which more than 20 percent of their students are not coming to class every day due to illness. The speaker is trying to convince the listeners that these numbers are not normal by providing the data to appeal on their logical reasoning to believe that something needs to be done to solve the problem.