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Aristotle Sentence Correction Grail Aristotleprep -----SC Grail
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price-reduction strategies should not be used because____.
A) affluent purchasers currently represent a shrinking portion of the population of all purchasers
B) continued sales depend directly on the maintenance of an aura of exclusivity
C) purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products
D) expansion of the market niche to include a broader spectrum of consumers will increase profits
E) manufacturing a premium brand is not necessarily more costly than manufacturing a standard brand of the same product
the passage talks abt why people go for premium products and what strategy should not be used to attract affluent purchasers
Option A is out ..as we are discussing abt what makes people to go for premium product, and this gives a statement opposite to them
Option C i sout, as this point is not mentioned any where
Option D is completely negation of discusiion........
Option E is out of scope
Option B logically follows why the mass marketing techniques should not be used..it gives an explannation here
I disagree with the OA given, please give the source of this question and the subsequent answer.
I will go with B.
All consumers (be it purchasers of premium products or otherwise) are concerned about quality and price. This answer could have been the correct choice if it wud have talked about the HIGH PRICES of the exclusive products. It doesnt, thats why its not correct.
Whereas B talks about maintaining the exclusivity of the premium product, which, IMO is the correct answer. People like exclusivity and are ready to pay the extra price for it. (Rolls Royce is one example which comes to my mind, although, Merc and BMW are bloody brilliant cars, they cannot compete with the Exclusivity maintained by RR !!)
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price-reduction strategies should not be used because____.
C) purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products
OA is in bold!
The majority of a person's health care expenditures goes towards curative measures like hospitalizations after injuries and care for existing illnesses. Paula's employer does not provide health insurance to his part-time employees, including Paula. However, he does reimburse employees for a flu shot each winter.
Paula's employer's seemingly inconsistent behavior in regard to health care expenses is best explained by which of the following?
A. Health insurance rarely covers pre-existing illnesses.
B. Part-time employees are usually covered by the insurance of a spouse or parent with full-time employment.
C. Few employers offer health insurance to part-time employees.
D. Flu shots prevent illness that could lead to lost work days.
E. Health insurance premiums are on the rise.
Explanation: The employers do not provide Health insurance but a flu shot every winter shows that they see some benefit of their own in providing those flu shots..
D explains this the best..
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price-reduction strategies should not be used because____.
B) continued sales depend directly on the maintenance of an aura of exclusivity this one is restatement of the concept of paragraph
C) purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products.check the part i marked in bold in paragraph this takes the arguement further with appropriate reasoning
so OA must be C as its mentioned!
I think B should be the correct answer...something special directly points to aura of exclusivity...quality is not the part of discussion anywhere.
BTW...source is OG 12...OA provided is B
The majority of a persons health care expenditures goes towards curative measures like hospitalizations after injuries and care for existing illnesses. Paulas employer does not provide health insurance to his part-time employees, including Paula. However, he does reimburse employees for a flu shot each winter.
Paulas employers seemingly inconsistent behavior in regard to health care expenses is best explained by which of the following?
A. Health insurance rarely covers pre-existing illnesses.
B. Part-time employees are usually covered by the insurance of a spouse or parent with full-time employment.
C. Few employers offer health insurance to part-time employees.
D. Flu shots prevent illness that could lead to lost work days.
E. Health insurance premiums are on the rise.
OA is D...
here's next set of questions from my side :
1. Politician: Those economists who claim that consumer price increases have averaged less than 3 percent over the last year are mistaken. They clearly have not shopped anywhere recently. Gasoline is up 10 percent over the last year; my auto insurance, 12 percent; newspapers, 15 percent; propane, 13%; bread, 50 percent. The reasoning in the politician's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
A. impugns the character of the economists rather than addressing their arguments
B. fails to show that the economists mentioned are not experts in the area of consumer prices
C. mistakenly infers that something is not true from the claim that it has not been shown to be so
D. uses evidence drawn from a small sample that may well be unrepresentative
E. attempts to persuade by making an emotional appeal
2. Rumored declines in automobile-industry revenues are exaggerated. It is true that automobile manufacturers' share of the industry's revenues fell from 65 percent two years ago to 50 percent today, but over the same period
suppliers of automobile parts had their share increase from 15 percent to 20 percent and service companies (for example, distributors, dealers, and repairers) had their share increase from 20 percent to 30 percent. Which one
of the following best indicates why the statistics given above provide by themselves no evidence for the conclusion they are intended to support?
A. The possibility is left open that the statistics for manufacturers' share of revenues come from a different source than the other statistics.
B. No matter what changes the automobile industry's overall revenues undergo, the total of all shares of these revenues must be 100 percent.
C. No explanation is given for why the revenue shares of different sectors of the industry changed.
D. Manufacturers and parts companies depend for their revenue on dealers' success in selling cars.
E. Revenues are an important factor but are not the only factor in determining profits.
3. Waste management companies, which collect waste for disposal in landfills and incineration plants, report that disposable plastics make up an ever-increasing percentage of the waste they handle. It is clear that attempts to
decrease the amount of plastic that people throw away in the garbage are failing. Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. Because plastics create harmful pollutants when burned, an increasing percentage of the plastics handled by waste management companies are being disposed of in landfills.
B. Although many plastics are recyclable, most of the plastics disposed of by waste management companies are not.
C. People are more likely to save and reuse plastic containers than containers made of heavier materials like glass or metal.
D. An increasing proportion of the paper, glass, and metal cans that waste management companies used to handle is now being recycled.
E. While the percentage of products using plastic packaging is increasing, the total amount of plastic being manufactured has remained unchanged.
4. Unlike newspapers in the old days, today's newspapers and televised news programs are full of stories about murders and assaults in our city. One can only conclude from this change that violent crime is now out of control, and, to be safe from personal attack, one should not leave one's home except for absolute necessities. Which one of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the conclusion?
A. Newspapers and televised news programs have more comprehensive coverage of violent crime than newspapers did in the old days.
B. National data show that violent crime is out of control everywhere, not just in the author's city.
C. Police records show that people experience more violent crimes in their own neighborhoods than they do outside their neighborhoods.
D. Murder comprised a larger proportion of violent crimes in the old days than it does today.
E. News magazines play a more important role today in informing the public about crime than they did in the old days.
5. Researcher: People with certain personality disorders have more theta brain waves than those without such disorders. But my data show that the amount of one's theta brain waves increases while watching TV. So watching too much TV increases one's risk of developing personality disorders. A questionable aspect of the reasoning above is that it
A. uses the phrase "personality disorders" ambiguously
B. fails to define the phrase "theta brain waves"
C. takes a correlation to imply a causal connection
D. draws a conclusion from an unrepresentative sample of data
E. infers that watching TV is a consequence of a personality disorder
here's next set of questions from my side :
1. Politician: Those economists who claim that consumer price increases have averaged less than 3 percent over the last year are mistaken. They clearly have not shopped anywhere recently. Gasoline is up 10 percent over the last year; my auto insurance, 12 percent; newspapers, 15 percent; propane, 13%; bread, 50 percent. The reasoning in the politicians argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
A. impugns the character of the economists rather than addressing their arguments
B. fails to show that the economists mentioned are not experts in the area of consumer prices
C. mistakenly infers that something is not true from the claim that it has not been shown to be so
D. uses evidence drawn from a small sample that may well be unrepresentative
E. attempts to persuade by making an emotional appeal
2. Rumored declines in automobile-industry revenues are exaggerated. It is true that automobile manufacturers share of the industrys revenues fell from 65 percent two years ago to 50 percent today, but over the same period
suppliers of automobile parts had their share increase from 15 percent to 20 percent and service companies (for example, distributors, dealers, and repairers) had their share increase from 20 percent to 30 percent. Which one
of the following best indicates why the statistics given above provide by themselves no evidence for the conclusion they are intended to support?
A. The possibility is left open that the statistics for manufacturers share of revenues come from a different source than the other statistics.
B. No matter what changes the automobile industrys overall revenues undergo, the total of all shares of these revenues must be 100 percent.
C. No explanation is given for why the revenue shares of different sectors of the industry changed.
D. Manufacturers and parts companies depend for their revenue on dealers success in selling cars.
E. Revenues are an important factor but are not the only factor in determining profits.
3. Waste management companies, which collect waste for disposal in landfills and incineration plants, report that disposable plastics make up an ever-increasing percentage of the waste they handle. It is clear that attempts to
decrease the amount of plastic that people throw away in the garbage are failing. Which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. Because plastics create harmful pollutants when burned, an increasing percentage of the plastics handled by waste management companies are being disposed of in landfills.
B. Although many plastics are recyclable, most of the plastics disposed of by waste management companies are not.
C. People are more likely to save and reuse plastic containers than containers made of heavier materials like glass or metal.
D. An increasing proportion of the paper, glass, and metal cans that waste management companies used to handle is now being recycled.
E. While the percentage of products using plastic packaging is increasing, the total amount of plastic being manufactured has remained unchanged.
4. Unlike newspapers in the old days, todays newspapers and televised news programs are full of stories about murders and assaults in our city. One can only conclude from this change that violent crime is now out of control, and, to be safe from personal attack, one should not leave ones home except for absolute necessities. Which one of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the conclusion?
A. Newspapers and televised news programs have more comprehensive coverage of violent crime than newspapers did in the old days.
B. National data show that violent crime is out of control everywhere, not just in the authors city.
C. Police records show that people experience more violent crimes in their own neighborhoods than they do outside their neighborhoods.
D. Murder comprised a larger proportion of violent crimes in the old days than it does today.
E. News magazines play a more important role today in informing the public about crime than they did in the old days.
5. Researcher: People with certain personality disorders have more theta brain waves than those without such disorders. But my data show that the amount of ones theta brain waves increases while watching TV. So watching
too much TV increases ones risk of developing personality disorders. A questionable aspect of the reasoning above is that it
A. uses the phrase personality disorders ambiguously
B. fails to define the phrase theta brain waves
C. takes a correlation to imply a causal connection
D. draws a conclusion from an unrepresentative sample of data
E. infers that watching TV is a consequence of a personality disorder
My take :
1. D
2. B
3. B
4. A
5. A
Plz post OA's...
@ganjupatel..
u got 3/5...this is all i can tell u now..
can u hold on for some time?
regards
Dipak
tell me the incorrect ones 😃
1. D
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
here's next set of questions from my side :
1. Politician: Those economists who claim that consumer price increases have averaged less than 3 percent over the last year are mistaken. They clearly have not shopped anywhere recently. Gasoline is up 10 percent over the last year; my auto insurance, 12 percent; newspapers, 15 percent; propane, 13%; bread, 50 percent. the reasoning in the politician's argument is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that the argument
a. Impugns the character of the economists rather than addressing their arguments
b. Fails to show that the economists mentioned are not experts in the area of consumer prices
c. Mistakenly infers that something is not true from the claim that it has not been shown to be so
d. Uses evidence drawn from a small sample that may well be unrepresentative
e. Attempts to persuade by making an emotional appeal
2. Rumored declines in automobile-industry revenues are exaggerated. It is true that automobile manufacturers' share of the industry's revenues fell from 65 percent two years ago to 50 percent today, but over the same period
suppliers of automobile parts had their share increase from 15 percent to 20 percent and service companies (for example, distributors, dealers, and repairers) had their share increase from 20 percent to 30 percent. which one
of the following best indicates why the statistics given above provide by themselves no evidence for the conclusion they are intended to support?
a. The possibility is left open that the statistics for manufacturers' share of revenues come from a different source than the other statistics.
B. No matter what changes the automobile industry's overall revenues undergo, the total of all shares of these revenues must be 100 percent.
C. No explanation is given for why the revenue shares of different sectors of the industry changed.
D. Manufacturers and parts companies depend for their revenue on dealers' success in selling cars.
E. Revenues are an important factor but are not the only factor in determining profits.
3. Waste management companies, which collect waste for disposal in landfills and incineration plants, report that disposable plastics make up an ever-increasing percentage of the waste they handle. It is clear that attempts to
decrease the amount of plastic that people throw away in the garbage are failing. which one of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
a. Because plastics create harmful pollutants when burned, an increasing percentage of the plastics handled by waste management companies are being disposed of in landfills.
B. Although many plastics are recyclable, most of the plastics disposed of by waste management companies are not.
C. People are more likely to save and reuse plastic containers than containers made of heavier materials like glass or metal.
D. An increasing proportion of the paper, glass, and metal cans that waste management companies used to handle is now being recycled.
E. While the percentage of products using plastic packaging is increasing, the total amount of plastic being manufactured has remained unchanged.
4. Unlike newspapers in the old days, today's newspapers and televised news programs are full of stories about murders and assaults in our city. One can only conclude from this change that violent crime is now out of control, and, to be safe from personal attack, one should not leave one's home except for absolute necessities. which one of the following, if true, would cast the most serious doubt on the conclusion?
a. Newspapers and televised news programs have more comprehensive coverage of violent crime than newspapers did in the old days.
B. National data show that violent crime is out of control everywhere, not just in the author's city.
C. Police records show that people experience more violent crimes in their own neighborhoods than they do outside their neighborhoods.
D. Murder comprised a larger proportion of violent crimes in the old days than it does today.
E. News magazines play a more important role today in informing the public about crime than they did in the old days.
5. Researcher: People with certain personality disorders have more theta brain waves than those without such disorders. But my data show that the amount of one's theta brain waves increases while watching tv. So watching too much tv increases one's risk of developing personality disorders. a questionable aspect of the reasoning above is that it
a. Uses the phrase "personality disorders" ambiguously
b. Fails to define the phrase "theta brain waves"
c. Takes a correlation to imply a causal connection
d. Draws a conclusion from an unrepresentative sample of data
e. Infers that watching tv is a consequence of a personality disorder
1. D
2. C
3. E
4. C
5. C
Which of the following best completes the passage below?
People buy prestige when they buy a premium product. They want to be associated with something special. Mass-marketing techniques and price-reduction strategies should not be used because____.
B) continued sales depend directly on the maintenance of an aura of exclusivity this one is restatement of the concept of paragraph
C) purchasers of premium products are concerned with the quality as well as with the price of the products.check the part i marked in bold in paragraph this takes the arguement further with appropriate reasoning
so OA must be C as its mentioned!
its a gmat prep q/s answer is b...... wherever u have seen answer there is wrong.also gmat prep is official answers to the q/s
Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys raising the issue above regarding national security?
A) When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for too builders.
B) The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreign competition on the machine-tool industry.
C) The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protection against imports on grounds other than defense.
D) A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensive machining.
E) Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domestic machine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers
is the answer c ???
OA's are as follows:
1. D
2. B
3. D
4. A
5. C
cheers..
Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys raising the issue above regarding national security?
A) When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for too builders.
B) The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreign competition on the machine-tool industry.
C) The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protection against imports on grounds other than defense.
D) A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensive machining.
E) Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domestic machine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers
my take Opt C :The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protection against imports on grounds other than defense.
Defense Department analysts worry that the ability of the United States to wage a prolonged war would be seriously endangered if the machine-tool manufacturing base shrinks further. Before the Defense Department publicly connected this security issue with the import quota issue, however, the machine-tool industry raised the national security issue in its petition for import quotas.
Which of the following, if true, contributes most to an explanation of the machine-tool industrys raising the issue above regarding national security?
A) When the aircraft industries retooled, they provided a large amount of work for too builders.
B) The Defense Department is only marginally concerned with the effects of foreign competition on the machine-tool industry.
C) The machine-tool industry encountered difficulty in obtaining governmental protection against imports on grounds other than defense.
D) A few weapons important for defense consist of parts that do not require extensive machining.
E) Several federal government programs have been designed which will enable domestic machine-tool manufacturing firms to compete successfully with foreign toolmakers
my take is C...
Couple of Qs from my side:
1. The people of Prohibitionland are considering banning the service of alcoholic
beverages in restaurants to curb unruly behavior on the part of its residents.
Proprietors of restaurants in Prohibitionland are protesting the ban on the
grounds that it will reduce their revenues and profits. However, several
provinces in Prohibitionland enacted restrictions on alcoholic beverages last
year, and the sales taxes paid by the restaurants in those provinces rose by
an average of 50 percent. In contrast, the sales taxes paid by restaurants
located in areas of Prohibitionland that did not have any restrictions rose by
an average of 30 percent. Which of the following, if true, supports the
restaurant proprietors economic stance against the ban?
In the provinces that restricted alcoholic beverages, there was a short-term
negative impact on restaurant visitation in the beginning of last year.
The sales tax in Prohibitionland is lower on food and beverages than it is on
other consumer goods, such as clothing.
The consumption of alcoholic beverages in Prohibitionland has been on a
gradual decline the last 20 years.
The restrictions on alcoholic beverages enacted last year allowed for the
service of drinks beginning around dinnertime each evening.
Overall sales tax revenue did not increase at a substantially higher rate in the
provinces that enacted the restrictions on alcoholic beverages than in the rest
of Prohibitionland last year.
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2. Recently, some critics of the U.S. government have pointed out that this
country is the only advanced industrialized nation without a national vaccine
laboratory and suggested that this lack makes the American public more
vulnerable than other developed nations to infectious diseases, such as avian
flu. A government official said these critics were disloyal and thus wrong
about the publics vulnerability. To support his claim, the official cited the
generally long life span and low infant mortality of United States citizens,
relative to all United Nation member nations. Mentioning the high quality of
American hospitals, he added that all of the Europeans that he knew
preferred to undergo major medical treatments in the United States rather
than in the socialized medical systems in place in their home countries. All of
the following are weaknesses or potential weaknesses in the officials
argument EXCEPT:
The high quality of hospitals in the United States is not a factor affecting the
publics vulnerability to infectious disease.
Whether or not the critics are disloyal has no bearing on whether or not they
are wrong.
The Europeans that the official cited are a demographically narrow sample,
overwhelmingly composed of wealthy males over the age of fifty.
The average life span of United States citizens is determined not only by
deaths due to infectious diseases but also by deaths due to all other causes.
Comparing the United States to all United Nations member nations does not
address the concern that the U.S. is behind other advanced industrialized
nations in a particular way.
Cheers!
Couple of Qs from my side:
1. The people of Prohibitionland are considering banning the service of alcoholic
beverages in restaurants to curb unruly behavior on the part of its residents.
Proprietors of restaurants in Prohibitionland are protesting the ban on the
grounds that it will reduce their revenues and profits. However, several
provinces in Prohibitionland enacted restrictions on alcoholic beverages last
year, and the sales taxes paid by the restaurants in those provinces rose by
an average of 50 percent. In contrast, the sales taxes paid by restaurants
located in areas of Prohibitionland that did not have any restrictions rose by
an average of 30 percent. Which of the following, if true, supports the
restaurant proprietors economic stance against the ban?
In the provinces that restricted alcoholic beverages, there was a short-term
negative impact on restaurant visitation in the beginning of last year.
The sales tax in Prohibitionland is lower on food and beverages than it is on
other consumer goods, such as clothing.
The consumption of alcoholic beverages in Prohibitionland has been on a
gradual decline the last 20 years.
The restrictions on alcoholic beverages enacted last year allowed for the
service of drinks beginning around dinnertime each evening.
Overall sales tax revenue did not increase at a substantially higher rate in the
provinces that enacted the restrictions on alcoholic beverages than in the rest
of Prohibitionland last year.
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2. Recently, some critics of the U.S. government have pointed out that this
country is the only advanced industrialized nation without a national vaccine
laboratory and suggested that this lack makes the American public more
vulnerable than other developed nations to infectious diseases, such as avian
flu. A government official said these critics were disloyal and thus wrong
about the publics vulnerability. To support his claim, the official cited the
generally long life span and low infant mortality of United States citizens,
relative to all United Nation member nations. Mentioning the high quality of
American hospitals, he added that all of the Europeans that he knew
preferred to undergo major medical treatments in the United States rather
than in the socialized medical systems in place in their home countries. All of
the following are weaknesses or potential weaknesses in the officials
argument EXCEPT:
The high quality of hospitals in the United States is not a factor affecting the
publics vulnerability to infectious disease.
Whether or not the critics are disloyal has no bearing on whether or not they
are wrong.
The Europeans that the official cited are a demographically narrow sample,
overwhelmingly composed of wealthy males over the age of fifty.
The average life span of United States citizens is determined not only by
deaths due to infectious diseases but also by deaths due to all other causes.
Comparing the United States to all United Nations member nations does not
address the concern that the U.S. is behind other advanced industrialized
nations in a particular way.
Cheers!
My take is in Bold.