what about no batteries?
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Chloe
· started 2023-06-24 19:57
· last activity 2023-06-26 21:43
· 1 reply
I didn't choose the right answer because it only addressed the inoperative smoke detectors, not the ones without batteries. So when negating it I didn't think the argument fell apart because the ones without batteries could have increased to make up for the difference.
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Emil-Kunkin
· 2023-06-26 21:43
Good question, I think this comes down to how the ideas of batteries and operativeness are introduced. Given that the author says that many are missing batteries or don't work for some other reason, I think we can safely say that those without batteries are inoperative. That is, we have the whole set of inoperative detectors, some of which are inoperative due to lack of batteries and others for some other reason.
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