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Exercise 3

Avg difficulty 2.5

Determine which type of fallacy each argument represents.

It was his fault, Officer. You can tell by the kind of car I'm driving and by my clothes that I am a good citizen and would not lie. Look at the rattletrap he is driving and look at how he is dressed. You can't believe anything a dirty, longhaired hippie like that might tell you. Search his car; he probably has pot in it.

Lee et al., Math in Society, §1.8 Logical Fallacies, Exercise 3

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