Which statement is an example of a bandwagon fallacy?

a. everyone loves that new action movie, so it must be one of the best films of the year.

b. our football team is the best because we are the most awesome team that has ever played!

c. the baseball team started losing games when you joined the team, so it must be your fault.

d. i would make a great student council president because i like to sew my own clothes.

A.Everyone loves that new action movie, so it must be one of the best films of the year.

Explanation: A Bandwagon fallacy is a persuasive technique through which a person tries to persuade his/her audience, so that most of them agree with his/her opinion. The technique that uses the speaker or writer is to suggest that if most of the people have the same opinion about something, it makes it true and the listener or reader should agree with it.

science.

modern problems require modern solutions.

in the problem you wrote said that the taxi charges $0.070 per mile(which would be 7 cents per mile), but then in your suggested equation you have it as $0.70 per mile (which is 70 cents per mile).

the latter seems more realistic, so i will assume that the taxi costs $5.00 and charges $0.70 per mile with tolls costing an additional $3.50. and it asks you to find how far you can travel on $36.50.

let x the number of miles traveled. since the taxi charges $0.70 per mile, multiplying this by the miles traveled (x) will yield the cost of the taxi ride as far as how far it took you. then adding this amount to the cost of the taxi ($5.00) and the additional cost for the tolls ($3.50) will give you the total cost of the taxi ride ($36.50)

that is,

            (0.70)x + 5.00 + 3.50 = 36.50

adding the like terms on the left-hand side of this equation, we arrive at the following:

            (0.70)x + 8.50 = 36.50

subtracting 8.50 from both sides of the equation, we get:

            (0.70)x = 28.00

to solve for x, divide both sides of the equation above by the coefficient of x (that being, 0.70):

            x = 40

thus, you can travel up to 40 miles on $36.50