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Reasoning Quick Check 5 of 55 of 5 Items Question Use the passage to answer the question. We should not serve desserts in the school cafeteria. If we offer desserts, students may stop choosing healthy foods in the cafeteria. They will expect to eat junk food and dessert for lunch every day, and their eating habits may get worse at home as well. What type of fallacious reasoning does this argument use? (1 point) Responses red herring red herring slippery slope slippery slope appeal to authority appeal to authority false analogy false analogy Skip to navigation page 17 of 17

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The argument presented uses **slippery slope** reasoning. It suggests that allowing desserts in the cafeteria will lead to a series of negative consequences, specifically that students will stop choosing healthy foods and their eating habits will deteriorate at home as well. The slippery slope fallacy occurs when an argument asserts that taking a minor action will lead to major and often dire consequences without sufficient evidence to support that claim.