Letter to the editor: Your newspaper' s advertisement claims that you provide coverage of the high school' s most popular sports. Clearly this is false advertising. Of the school' s students, 15 percent compete on the track team, while only 5 percent of the students play basketball. Hence, track is far more popular than basketball, yet track gets no coverage and basketball gets full-page coverage. The reasoning in the letter to the editor is most vulnerable to the criticism that it
A: bases its conclusion on a sample that is too small
B: employs as a premise the contention it purports to show
C: misinterprets a key word in the newspaper's advertisement
D: criticizes the source of a claim rather than the claim itself
Choose A, B, C or D as your solution.
C