But if we go by C, there is no way to assume that the foreign made parts do not pass the test at all, maybe 99 parts out of 100 do not pass the tests, but there is a possibility that 1 part might be able to pass the test.
And I am not able to understand the reasoning that you stated below, can u elaborate a bit please.
D) parts that satisfy our government standards are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts comparison being made with the part mentioned in bold already explicitly mentioned in passage.assumpition would have to be taken which is indirectly mentioned so C wins!!
Is this question and explanation provided by you from some reputed source, because if that is the case, then i need to study the assumtions chapter again :( Please provide the source because u are scaring me......
Advertisement: Clark brand-name parts are made for cars manufactured in this country. They satisfy all of our government automotive testthe toughest such tests in the world. With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs. Therefore, be smart and insist on brand-name parts by Clark for your car. The argument requires the assumption that (C) no foreign-made parts satisfy our government standards.there is no such ambiguity mentioned here as in D (D) parts that satisfy our government standards are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts.this means this leaves a choice that clark parts are also poorly constructed though not as poorly as foriegn made parts so if i go for buying a car and if the agent of the comepany tells me this meaning iwould rethink twice before buying car with clark parts since he is not himself giving asurity that clark parts are flawless as per these conditions.
Not sure if you had the chance to read my mail above, where I have explained why C cannot be the right answer.
As for your comment ..this means this leaves a choice that clark parts are also poorly constructed.., you must develop an orientation to just interpret CR arguments literally and not interpret those. For example, if 95 out of 100 students pass in an exam, the following statement would still be true: Few students pass in the exam. What you cannot argue is that actually a whopping 95% students passed the exam and not just few.
Coming to this question, on a scale of quality (whatever it is) assume that Clark parts get a 80 out of 100, while the foreign-made parts get a 20 out of 100. Will the following statement be true: Clarks parts are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts? YES, and logically so be all means.
p.s. As an aside, a general recommendation is that answer choices with absolute recommendations (such as no, never, always etc) are very seldom correct on GMAT.
Hi Ashish, Thanks for your posts...i tried to check the source of this question on internet and what i come to know is that its taken from "CR1000 Lsat Test2 Section-IV", and some people have OA D and some have OA C in their docs...
Now, please clear my understanding in this question. My approach is based on the Manhattan GMAT CR book, chapter assumption, page no 59, topic "Feasibility of the premise" Here we have 2 main premise---leave the first statement. premise 1:-They satisfy all of our government automotive test. premise 2:-With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs.
Now the according to the feasibility principal, if an assumption establishes the feasibility of premise then, thats correct. And i believe in if apply the same here, then BOTH C and D seems to me correct. C supporting the Premise 1 and D supporting the premise 2
Economic considerations color every aspect of international dealings, and nations are just like individuals in that the lender sets the terms of its dealings with the borrower. That is why a nation that owes money to another nation cannot be world leader. The reasoning in the passage assumes which one of the following? (A) A nation that does not lend to any other nation cannot be a world leader. (B) A nation that can set the terms of its dealings with other nations is certain to be a world leader. (C) A nation that has the terms of its dealings with another nation set by that nation cannot be a world leader. (D) A nation that is a world leader can borrow from another nation as long as that other nation does not set the terms of the dealings between the two nations. (E) A nation that has no dealings with any other nation cannot be world leader.
In opposing the 1970 Clean Air Act, the United States automobile industry argued that meeting the acts standards for automobile emissions was neither economically feasible nor environmentally necessary. However, the catalytic converter, invented in 1967, enabled automakers to meet the 1970 standards efficiently. Currently, automakers are lobbying against the governments attempt to pass legislation that would tighten restrictions on automobile emissions. The automakers contend that these new restrictions would be overly expensive and unnecessary to efforts to curb air pollution. Clearly, the automobile industrys position should not be heeded. 24. Which one of the following most accurately expresses the method used to counter the automakers current position? (A) The automakers premises are shown to lead to a contradiction. (B) Facts are mentioned that show that the automakers are relying on false information. (C) A flaw is pointed out in the reasoning used by the automakers to reach their conclusion. (D) A comparison is drawn between the automakers current position and a position they held in the past. (E) Evidence is provided that the new emissions legislation is both economically feasible and environmentally necessary.
The question stem seems to me a bit confusion...i mean, what the author is asking... anyways as per my understanding, i think Op E the automakers current position is that they are lobbying against the governments attempt to pass legislation that would tighten restrictions on automobile emissions because they believe that these new restrictions would be overly expensive and unnecessary to efforts to curb air pollution.
in order to counter the automobile industry effort, or to deny their legislation, the court require evidence which counter their line of reasoning...Thus main thing is evidence is needed...Op E suits best... wats the OA
Bhai, in premise 2 it states that u never know which part might be reliable, so this is the place where the assumption needs to plug the hole. Ans this assumption is that Clark parts (which satisfy standards) are better (not as poorly) constructed than the foreign-made parts.
The other way is to use the negation technique, C>Assumption negation: Some foreign-made parts satisfy our govt. standards (Some don't). D>Assumption negation : Parts that satisfy our government standards are as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts.
Now, the statement which weakens the arguments most, is the correct answer. IMO, it is D. What do you say?
Hi Ashish, Thanks for your posts...i tried to check the source of this question on internet and what i come to know is that its taken from "CR1000 Lsat Test2 Section-IV", and some people have OA D and some have OA C in their docs...
Now, please clear my understanding in this question. My approach is based on the Manhattan GMAT CR book, chapter assumption, page no 59, topic "Feasibility of the premise" Here we have 2 main premise---leave the first statement. premise 1:-They satisfy all of our government automotive test. premise 2:-With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs.
Now the according to the feasibility principal, if an assumption establishes the feasibility of premise then, thats correct. And i believe in if apply the same here, then BOTH C and D seems to me correct. C supporting the Premise 1 and D supporting the premise 2
The question stem seems to me a bit confusion...i mean, what the author is asking... anyways as per my understanding, i think Op E the automakers current position is that they are lobbying against the governments attempt to pass legislation that would tighten restrictions on automobile emissions because they believe that these new restrictions would be overly expensive and unnecessary to efforts to curb air pollution.
in order to counter the automobile industry effort, or to deny their legislation, the court require evidence which counter their line of reasoning...Thus main thing is evidence is needed...Op E suits best... wats the OA
In opposing the 1970 Clean Air Act, the United States automobile industry argued that meeting the acts standards for automobile emissions was neither economically feasible nor environmentally necessary. However, the catalytic converter, invented in 1967, enabled automakers to meet the 1970 standards efficiently. Currently, automakers are lobbying against the governments attempt to pass legislation that would tighten restrictions on automobile emissions. The automakers contend that these new restrictions would be overly expensive and unnecessary to efforts to curb air pollution. Clearly, the automobile industrys position should not be heeded. 24. Which one of the following most accurately expresses the method used to counter the automakers current position? (D) A comparison is drawn between the automakers current position and a position they held in the past. OA is D!! as comparing to 1967 when automobile firms have opposed to claen air act which later intiated a technological development which led automobile industry to compy with 1970 standards efficiently. now atumobile industry is again opposing for tighenting restrictions which it thinks to be unecessary to curb air polution which will rather help in improving technology thus would improve efficiency and more demand in market
I think there is a flaw in your reasoning... "as comparing to 1967 when automobile firms have opposed to clean air act..." the above line of reasoning you have posted is incorrect..because it states that automobile firms opposed the clean air act first time in 1967...is it possible?? just think, the act they are proposing was released in 1970, so how can they oppose the act in 1967 itself.. if you read the first 2 lines of the given argument... The lines state that, automobile industry actually started opposing after the Clean Air act was presented, means they start opposing in 1970 or after 1970 not before 1970...the second line of the argument actually contradict the first line, suggesting that feasibility is possible because a catalytic inverter was already invented in 1967.... so the series of the argument go on in this way 1st---government presented an act in 1970 and automobile industry opposing that 2nd--A fact which reflects some technology (Converter), is already there, invented in 1967 3rd--government tried to pass a legislation, to tighten the industry, to imply the rules of clean air act 4th--final position--industry is putting its effort so that the legislation will not get passed
I don't think anywhere the comparison is coming in between
Bhai, in premise 2 it states that u never know which part might be reliable, so this is the place where the assumption needs to plug the hole. Ans this assumption is that Clark parts (which satisfy standards) are better (not as poorly) constructed than the foreign-made parts.
The other way is to use the negation technique, C>Assumption negation: Some foreign-made parts satisfy our govt. standards (Some don't). D>Assumption negation : Parts that satisfy our government standards are as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts.
Now, the statement which weakens the arguments most, is the correct answer. IMO, it is D. What do you say?
atulmangal Says
Well i think you are correct... but my way of thinking it as a correct ans is a bit different now... Anyways you are wright...thanks
The average level of fat in the blood of people suffering from acute cases of disease W is lower than the average level for the population as a whole. Nevertheless, most doctors believe that reducing blood-fat levels is an effective way of preventing acute W. Which one of the following, if true, does most to justify this apparently paradoxical belief? (A) The blood level of fat for patients who have been cured of W is on average the same as that for the population at large. (B) Several of the symptoms characteristic of acute W have been produced in laboratory animals fed large doses of a synthetic fat substitute, though acute W itself has not been produced in this way. (C) The progression from latent to acute W can occur only when the agent that causes acute W absorbs large quantities of fat from the patients blood. (D) The levels of fat in the blood of patients who have disease W respond abnormally slowly to changes in dietary intake of fat. (E) High levels of fat in the blood are indicative of several diseases that are just as serious as W.
what i can understand from the paragarph is that people with acute cases of W has less fat (might be people with less fat get acute W or getting acute W reduces the fat content)
doctors believes reducing fat content reduces danger of acute W(so might be more fat aids in getting acute W)
with this understanding if we see the options: (C) it says fat is absorbed and that is the reason for acute W , so it might be also the reason for first statement in the paragraph
Court records from medieval France show that in the years 1300 to 1400 the number of people arrested in the French realm for violent interpersonal crimes (not committed in wars) increased by 30 percent over the number of people arrested for such crimes in the years 1200 to 1300. If the increase was not the result of false arrests, therefore, medieval France had a higher level of documented interpersonal violence in the years 1300 to 1400 than in the years 1200 to 1300. Which one of the following statements, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? (A) In the years 1300 to 1400 the French governments category of violent crimes included an increasing variety of interpersonal crimes that are actually nonviolent. (B) Historical accounts by monastic chroniclers in the years 1300 to 1400 are filled with descriptions of violent attacks committed by people living in the French realm. (C) The number of individual agreements between two people in which they swore oaths not to attack each other increased substantially after 1300. (D) When English armies tried to conquer parts of France in the mid- to late 1300s, violence in the northern province of Normandy and the southwestern province of Gascony increased. (E) The population of medical France increased substantially during the first five decades of the 1300s, until the deadly bubonic plague decimated the population of France after 1348.
Option E is out of context Option D relates to war, hence out Option C will not convey enough info , so out Option B is just augementing what is said in the para, hence out
Option A , weakens the argument as it says more crimes are included as part of violence during this time
The soaring prices of scholarly and scientific journals have forced academic libraries used only by academic researchers to drastically reduce their list of subscriptions. Some have suggested that in each academic discipline subscription decisions should be determined solely by a journals usefulness in that discipline, measured by the frequency with which it is cited in published writings by researchers in the discipline. Which one of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the suggestion described above? (A) The nonacademic readership of a scholarly or scientific journal can be accurately gauged by the number of times articles appearing in it are cited in daily newspapers and popular magazines. (B) The average length of a journal article in some sciences, such as physics, is less than half the average length of a journal article in some other academic disciplines, such as history. (C) The increasingly expensive scholarly journals are less and less likely to be available to the general public from nonacademic public libraries. (D) Researchers often will not cite a journal article that has influenced their work if they think that the journal in which it appears is not highly regarded by the leading researchers in the mainstream of the discipline (E) In some academic disciplines, controversies which begin in the pages of one journal spill over into articles in other journals that are widely read by researchers in the discipline.
here the discussion is abt the journals used in libraries used by the academics... hence options A and C are out Option B is out as it is out of context
i feel option D should be the answer as it says researchers might not cite a useful journal if it is not highly regarded...hence this would be the answer
Court records from medieval France show that in the years 1300 to 1400 the number of people arrested in the French realm for violent interpersonal crimes (not committed in wars) increased by 30 percent over the number of people arrested for such crimes in the years 1200 to 1300. If the increase was not the result of false arrests, therefore, medieval France had a higher level of documented interpersonal violence in the years 1300 to 1400 than in the years 1200 to 1300. Which one of the following statements, if true, most seriously weakens the argument? (A) In the years 1300 to 1400 the French governments category of violent crimes included an increasing variety of interpersonal crimes that are actually nonviolent. (B) Historical accounts by monastic chroniclers in the years 1300 to 1400 are filled with descriptions of violent attacks committed by people living in the French realm. (C) The number of individual agreements between two people in which they swore oaths not to attack each other increased substantially after 1300. (D) When English armies tried to conquer parts of France in the mid- to late 1300s, violence in the northern province of Normandy and the southwestern province of Gascony increased. (E) The population of medical France increased substantially during the first five decades of the 1300s, until the deadly bubonic plague decimated the population of France after 1348.
A is correct as it shows that the government considered certain non-violent crimes as violent leading to higher level of documented interpersonal violence in the years 1300 to 1400. Hence it weakens the argument. B actually strengthens the argument. C is irrelevant as it shows that the no. of crimes decreased. D is false as it associated the increase in no. of crime with war. E is irrelevant. Hence A.
IMO D....i really find these kind of questions tough.... I think the ans is D because...Stanislaus argument doesn't discuss about the actual ongoing war...it discusses war preparation the research etc is an ongoing preparatory process...if a country is investing money in arms research it doesn't mean that its in the actual state of war....while on the other hand...Cass's argument is somewhere i believe indicating towards the actual war and peace situation between two countries... OP A--WRONG: because as i mentioned research and all may or may not counted as an actual part of war Op B---WRONG:seems initially very tempting becoz both are defining different meanings of war...but with only two different definitions..u can't say that there can be several different meanings..this choice too extreme.. Op C---WRONG:the term was used correctly in both the arguments OP E---WRONG: argument is not based on definition...
Hi I take the B as my ans for 1st Choice n D as a 2nd Choice Can u give the much strong reason to eliminate option B
The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is certainly imprecise, because we are not sure how different from us something might be and still count as "intelligent life." Yet we cannot just decide to define "intelligent life" in some more precise way since it is likely that we will find and recognize intelligent life elsewhere in the universe only if we leave our definitions open to new, unimagined possibilities. The passage, if seen as an objection to an antecedent claim, challenges that claim by: (A) showing the claim to be irrelevant to the issue at hand (B) citing examples that fail to fit proposed definition of "intelligent life" (C) claiming that "intelligent life" cannot be adequately defined (D) arguing that the claim, if acted on, would be counterproductive (E) maintaining that the claim is not supported by the available evidence
The question whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is certainly imprecise, because we are not sure how different from us something might be and still count as intelligent life. Yet we cannot just decide to define intelligent life in some more precise way since it is likely that we will find and recognize intelligent life elsewhere in the universe only if we leave our definitions open to new, unimagined possibilities. The passage, if seen as an objection to an antecedent claim, challenges that claim by: (A) showing the claim to be irrelevant to the issue at hand (B) citing examples that fail to fit proposed definition of intelligent life (C) claiming that intelligent life cannot be adequately defined (D) arguing that the claim, if acted on, would be counterproductive (E) maintaining that the claim is not supported by the available evidence
options C and B both strenghthens the claim here the question is the paragraph which best possibly questions the antecedant claim or in other words the claim that is mentioned how does the pargraph best possibly refute the claim.
The average level of fat in the blood of people suffering from acute cases of disease W is lower than the average level for the population as a whole. Nevertheless, most doctors believe that reducing blood-fat levels is an effective way of preventing acute W. Which one of the following, if true, does most to justify this apparently paradoxical belief? (A) The blood level of fat for patients who have been cured of W is on average the same as that for the population at large. (B) Several of the symptoms characteristic of acute W have been produced in laboratory animals fed large doses of a synthetic fat substitute, though acute W itself has not been produced in this way. (C) The progression from latent to acute W can occur only when the agent that causes acute W absorbs large quantities of fat from the patients blood. (D) The levels of fat in the blood of patients who have disease W respond abnormally slowly to changes in dietary intake of fat. (E) High levels of fat in the blood are indicative of several diseases that are just as serious as W.
My answer is 'C'. Though i dont understand the meaning of option A. It says that fat level for those who have been cured is same as that for overall population. Also the fat level for people with disease W is lower than the average population acc to the first line of the pssg. That means for curing the disease W the fat level has to be increased. Hence it is false. Is my understanding correct?