Exercise: Determining whether a statement is arguable

Decide which of the following statements are arguable and which are not.

Click Submit after each question to record your answer. If your instructor has assigned this exercise set, you must answer every question before your answers will be submitted to the gradebook.

  1. Question

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    American Sniper was the best movie of the last decade.

  2. Question

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    No amount of human effort can mitigate the effect of global warming.

  3. Question

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    The United States must further reduce social spending in order to balance the budget.

  4. Question

    Ba+/HJOJq8K254edK/b/npipmF0QAjzgs5Dq3eShBoloyyAvDmsUDQMJrYFUjlDXlztOYg==
    Shakespeare died in 1616.

  5. Question

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    The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941.

  6. Question

    8wppCHX29ViMa6UzmB4wWOnTgmNguZy72f3Akdj7n4rYvCV21i1wnszUzHZnU5bJUcAXc7OrFZom0VGwXG6p1Q==
    Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

  7. Question

    v94K8Bh5523uSkz49n6RqySRQVquvc0Y0B5EA8Q/eVfrKtMZN2Dh3DxGIHMKeWwZdoDbjPh3bh8lOsd+uKpEvAuip+MyxeaT6oP7kA==
    Van Gogh’s paintings are the work of a madman.

  8. Question

    TAHJwzllyc1/GvCn2Ri3FcNGtKNS3euc1EArz2NCuqGM5YrgflL5BuXWcdibi21yJFXN0oL9Xz3c1dJgZuoy0JUzFeOLbGc43os6oOls94QdDFe1IWZVTGuOOqgf9Z+OKFrO2XwyoEPeb6r0KYVM7gL5Sk1arvL+
    More than two million people currently living in the United States have survived breast cancer.

  9. Question

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    The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to disasters must be radically improved.

  10. Question

    /jIQslVLExnuVD7CmPs3kX5NUUqC1npcMw0wRNBoIVdiMfQZfP1qUHdKVVI07tvr0Pl7S1zYg/kuX9eaj82XnxtlKRlgS+P9ZHjB3q6LadA0EVcjIu4VbpPEZ48+2WeQNbgX+4VxPZLuUGzgBER/CkXOB9Vv9dWhyWySdNnzNqjTsJ69gGvVpjy2PPJVT+WHH5v4BLB6aAePOo2TS3FW7bOMPsWY9q9+OGGaRFDYLxva/HbCUf73mYKXlfhzB+LXQccf706auLCT76H2S2rFFbnVAEp3NX8AWEhdpz2ZPf/Vq6Xjc167dxszSbaPzTEovB3guguRLgfnx9gCKcD61bgUx8KOW7vwA3+oFqWSYqW+3iRiPL6zdp9pvMi/YUcjms+3QUYKzQzE6/FL
    A fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit on all U.S. highways would lower accident rates.