The cause of the wreck of the ship edmund fitzgerald in a severe storm on lake superior is still unknown. when the sunken wreckage of the vessel was found, searchers discovered the hull in two pieces lying close together. the storm’s violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart. therefore the breakup of the hull can be ruled out as the cause of the sinking.

which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

a. ships as large as the edmund rarely sink except in the most violent weather.
b. underwater currents at the time of the storm did not move the separated pieces of the hull together again.
c. pieces of the hull would have sunk more quickly than the intact hull would have.
d. the waves of the storm were not violent enough to have caused the ship to break up the surface.
e. if the ship broke up before sinking, the pieces of the hull would not have remained on the surface for very long.

Choose the best example of an indirect confrontation for the following situation: peter, a local school board member hired john whom owns a local print shop to make custom t-shirts for his son's basketball team, the ravens. they are about to play their final game of the year and are having a party to celebrate their semi-finalist rankings. unfortunately, the printer made a mistake and printed on red/blue shirts instead of black/blue which are the team's actual colors. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue instead of red/blue and asks john what he thinks they should do. peter explains to john that the team's colors are black/blue and demands that john re-print the shirts on the correct colors. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but then posts a negative yelp review on john's business. peter agrees to take the red/blue shirts but tells everyone he can in the school about the incident and tells them not to buy from john. peter rejects the shirts and files a lawsuit to attempt to recover the down payment he made to john.