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The soft drinks sector has shown good growth in profits over the past few years; therefore we can conclude that each individual soft-drinks company is making good profits. The above argument is an example of which of the following fallacies?

AHasty generalisation
BSlippery slope
CBegging the question
DThe fallacy of division ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) The fallacy of division
Explanation

The argument commits the fallacy of division.

It moves from a property of the whole sector to each single company.

What is true of a collective need not be true of its individual members.

Sector-wide profit growth does not guarantee every firm profits.

Attributing the whole's trait to each part is division.

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