Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet much of this information can now be made directly available to consumers. Demand for the services of travel agents will be drastically reduced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. Travel agents routinely use the internet and other new information technologies as sources for the information they obtain for their customers. B. The amount of information available through the internet and other new information technologies is increasing faster than the capabilities of most consumers to process it C. Many people use travel-related services, such as airlines and hotels without consulting a travel agent. D. The people who currently use the services of travel agents are also those most likely to gain access to new information technologies E. The internet and other new information technologies are currently used by a relatively small proportion of the population
The cause of the wreck of the ship Edmund Fitzgeraid in a severe storm on lake Superior is still unknown , when the sunken wreckage of the vessel was found, searchers discovered the hull in two pieces lying close together, The storms violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart. Therefore, the breakup of the hull can be ruled out as the cause of the sinking. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends? A. Ships as large as the Edmund Fitzgerald rarely sink except in the most violent weather. B. Under water currents at the time of the storm did not move the separated pieces of the hull together again. C. Pieces of the hull would have sunk more quickly than the intact hull would have D. The waves of the storm were not violent enough to have caused the breakup E. If the ship broke up before sinking , the pieces of the hull would not have remained on the surface for very long
Parents of some of the children in a particular class have claimed that the teacher is not objective and favors his male students with higher grades. But the record shown that 92% of the female students received a passing grade in this teachers class. This record demonstrates that the teacher has not discriminated against women when assigning grades. The argument above is flawed in that it ignored the possibility that A. a large number of the teachers student were in his class the previous year. B. many teachers find it difffucult to be objective when assigning grades to male and female students. C. the evidence shows that more than 92% of the female students should have received a passing grade. D. the majority of tests written by female students and that have been rechecked by another teacher were given a higher grade by the second teacher. E. the teacher is biased against female students in the case of only some of the subjects he teachers.
Parents of some of the children in a particular class have claimed that the teacher is not objective and favors his male students with higher grades. But the record shown that 92% of the female students received a passing grade in this teachers class. This record demonstrates that the teacher has not discriminated against women when assigning grades. The argument above is flawed in that it ignored the possibility that
C. the evidence shows that more than 92% of the female students should have received a passing grade.
Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet much of this information can now be made directly available to consumers. Demand for the services of travel agents will be drastically reduced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
B. The amount of information available through the internet and other new information technologies is increasing faster than the capabilities of most consumers to process it
The cause of the wreck of the ship Edmund Fitzgeraid in a severe storm on lake Superior is still unknown , when the sunken wreckage of the vessel was found, searchers discovered the hull in two pieces lying close together, The storms violent waves would have caused separate pieces floating even briefly on the surface to drift apart. Therefore, the breakup of the hull can be ruled out as the cause of the sinking. Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?
B. Under water currents at the time of the storm did not move the separated pieces of the hull together again. OAs are in bold!!
Can any one explain the last ones's logic ??
In the passage it says the hull were together but option B says something different.
In the passage it says the hull were together but option B says something different.
Premise 1 -> Ship Edmund Fitzgeraid sank. Premise 2 -> If breaking of the hull was the reason for its sinking, then the two broken pieces would have drifted apart as they began to sank, owing to the violent storm waves. Premise 3 -> The two broken pieces were not found to have been displaced far apart in the bed surface, and were infact lying close to each other.
Conclusion -> Breaking of the hull was not the reason for its sinking.
So, here we can see that the assumption that the author has made is that, after the hull pieces started to sink, the underwater current waves could not have brought them back together again.
The federal funds rate (FFR) is the rate of interest at which the United States Federal Reserve lends money to U.S. banks and other depository institutions. The FFR was recently lowered, and banks began to loan money at very low interest rates, resulting in an abnormally high level of domestic consumer and commercial debt. The Federal Reserve has announced that it will gradually increase the FFR to its previous level. As the FFR increases, domestic consumer and commercial interest rates and debt will return to their previous levels.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the prediction above?
A)Mortgage rates often change in anticipation of changes to the FFR.
B)Easy and inexpensive access to capital allowed many businesses to increase capacity, leading to lower levels of unemployment.
C)According to standard monetary policy, a low FFR can soften the effects of a recession.
D)Instability in international capital markets, which drives money into the United States and lowers interest rates, is likely to increase in the near future.
E)The government is already considering placing stricter legal limits on lending practices.
The federal funds rate (FFR) is the rate of interest at which the United States Federal Reserve lends money to U.S. banks and other depository institutions. The FFR was recently lowered, and banks began to loan money at very low interest rates, resulting in an abnormally high level of domestic consumer and commercial debt. The Federal Reserve has announced that it will gradually increase the FFR to its previous level. As the FFR increases, domestic consumer and commercial interest rates and debt will return to their previous levels.
Which of the following, if true, casts the most doubt on the prediction above?
A)Mortgage rates often change in anticipation of changes to the FFR.
B)Easy and inexpensive access to capital allowed many businesses to increase capacity, leading to lower levels of unemployment.
C)According to standard monetary policy, a low FFR can soften the effects of a recession.
D)Instability in international capital markets, which drives money into the United States and lowers interest rates, is likely to increase in the near future.
E)The government is already considering placing stricter legal limits on lending practices.
Will go with D Increasing inflow of money lowers interest rates, as per this statement, so the prediction does not hold good any more.
A career in dermatology is still a safe bet for medical school graduates. IN the U.S. the number of cases of skin cancer linked to ultraviolet UV sunlight has remained relatively constant every year even though far frewer adults are intentionally exposing themseleves to UV sunlight now than were doin so at the height of the suntan crazy 20 years ago.
Each of the folowing, if true, could explain the relative stability in the incidence of skin cancer each year despite the decrease in intentional exposure to UV sunglight EXCEPT:
A: Because of decreasing levels of ozone in the upper atmopshere, more people are now exposed accidentally to excessive UV sunlight
B: People who continue to intentionall expose themselves to UV sunlight are absorbing larger does of the harmful radiation than the average suntannder did in the past.
C: Levels of UV radiation from sources other than sunlight are increasing every year.
D: While fewere women are intentionally exposing themselves to UV sunlight, the number of men doing so has increased significantly.
E: In most victims, skin cancer is lined to exposures to UV sunlight that occured up to 30 years before the onset of the disease.
I think the bold text be correct... Was confused b/w A and E.
A-> How excessive? Excessive enuf to cause cancer? Dont kno! C->The question only speaks of skin cancer linked to ultraviolet UV sunlight and not to any other sources. B & D-> Irrelevant.
If E is true, current trends in exposure do not have impact on rate of victims reporting skin cancer.
IMO C It specifically states "Levels of UV Radiation from sources OTHER than sunlight" So its nowhere related to the situation pertaining to the stimulus.
Although I was confused with D, but again theoretically D seems to be possible !
i think the answer should be B? whts the OA?
OA is D .. This is a question from Kaplan 800. The explanation given is:
D is the only one that doesn't help in solving the mystrey. Even if the number of men intentionally exposing themselves to UV rays has increased, we still know from the stimulus that far fewer adults together are intentionally exposing themselves ; so the mystrey remains
OA is D .. This is a question from Kaplan 800. The explanation given is:
D is the only one that doesn't help in solving the mystrey. Even if the number of men intentionally exposing themselves to UV rays has increased, we still know from the stimulus that far fewer adults together are intentionally exposing themselves ; so the mystrey remains
Oops.. totally misread the question in this case... Ended up finding the option that best explains the paradox... :nono:
NEXT Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumers legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.
In the consumer advocates argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization. (B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold. (C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction. (D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction. (E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.
Oops.. totally misread the question in this case... Ended up finding the option that best explains the paradox... :nono:
NEXT Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumers legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.
In the consumer advocates argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization. (B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold. (C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction. (D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction. (E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.
OA is D .. This is a question from Kaplan 800. The explanation given is:
D is the only one that doesn't help in solving the mystrey. Even if the number of men intentionally exposing themselves to UV rays has increased, we still know from the stimulus that far fewer adults together are intentionally exposing themselves ; so the mystrey remains
I do not think I understand the explanation completely. How has option (C) been ruled out? (C) talks about sources other than UV Rays from SUnlight, how is that relevant to the stimulus?
Travel agents are market intermediaries who make their living by gathering, organizing, and dispensing information about travel-related services that is not readily available to most consumers through new information technologies, such as the internet much of this information can now be made directly available to consumers. Demand for the services of travel agents will be drastically reduced.
Which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the argument?
A. Travel agents routinely use the internet and other new information technologies as sources for the information they obtain for their customers. B. The amount of information available through the internet and other new information technologies is increasing faster than the capabilities of most consumers to process it C. Many people use travel-related services, such as airlines and hotels without consulting a travel agent. D. The people who currently use the services of travel agents are also those most likely to gain access to new information technologies E. The internet and other new information technologies are currently used by a relatively small proportion of the population
In Morigia the average age of cars that are still in use has historically been seven years, but now it is nearly nine years. Car manufacturers claim that the current poor economy has forced people to put off buying new cars, and thus when the economy improves, the average age of cars will return to former levels. Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the car manufacturers' prediction? A. Fewer cars per year are now being manufactured in Morigia than were being manufactured there five years ago. B. When the threat of job loss is particularly strong, people are reluctant to commit themselves to expensive purchases. C. The older a car is, the greater the amount of upkeep it requires. D. The air-pollution control devices now being used in cars manufactured in Morigia cost less than those that were used seven years ago. E. Most people in Morigia now believe that replacing an old car with a new one has very undesirable ecological consequences
Oops.. totally misread the question in this case... Ended up finding the option that best explains the paradox... :nono:
NEXT Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumers legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.
In the consumer advocates argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization. (B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold. (C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction. (D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction. (E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.
IMO C for this.Coz' Cause & Effect which usu. happens (i.e lowering restriction would increase more advertisements, & hence lower the fees ) is not happening in this particular face when the restriction being removed is about the fees being specified itself, so it will work negatively for the state.
In Morigia the average age of cars that are still in use has historically been seven years, but now it is nearly nine years. Car manufacturers claim that the current poor economy has forced people to put off buying new cars, and thus when the economy improves, the average age of cars will return to former levels. Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the car manufacturers' prediction? A. Fewer cars per year are now being manufactured in Morigia than were being manufactured there five years ago. B. When the threat of job loss is particularly strong, people are reluctant to commit themselves to expensive purchases. C. The older a car is, the greater the amount of upkeep it requires. D. The air-pollution control devices now being used in cars manufactured in Morigia cost less than those that were used seven years ago. E. Most people in Morigia now believe that replacing an old car with a new one has very undesirable ecological consequences
IMO E, as this is the only option which explains why people wouldn't go back to their previous ways of buying newer cars even after the Economy improves.
A career in dermatology is still a safe bet for medical school graduates. IN the U.S. the number of cases of skin cancer linked to ultraviolet UV sunlight has remained relatively constant every year even though far frewer adults are intentionally exposing themseleves to UV sunlight now than were doin so at the height of the suntan crazy 20 years ago.
Each of the folowing, if true, could explain the relative stability in the incidence of skin cancer each year despite the decrease in intentional exposure to UV sunglight EXCEPT:
A: Because of decreasing levels of ozone in the upper atmopshere, more people are now exposed accidentally to excessive UV sunlight
B: People who continue to intentionall expose themselves to UV sunlight are absorbing larger does of the harmful radiation than the average suntannder did in the past.
C: Levels of UV radiation from sources other than sunlight are increasing every year.
D: While fewere women are intentionally exposing themselves to UV sunlight, the number of men doing so has increased significantly.
E: In most victims, skin cancer is lined to exposures to UV sunlight that occured up to 30 years before the onset of the disease.
in morigia the average age of cars that are still in use has historically been seven years, but now it is nearly nine years. Car manufacturers claim that the current poor economy has forced people to put off buying new cars, and thus when the economy improves, the average age of cars will return to former levels. Which of the following, if true, most seriously calls into question the car manufacturers' prediction? A. Fewer cars per year are now being manufactured in morigia than were being manufactured there five years ago. B. When the threat of job loss is particularly strong, people are reluctant to commit themselves to expensive purchases. C. the older a car is, the greater the amount of upkeep it requires. D. The air-pollution control devices now being used in cars manufactured in morigia cost less than those that were used seven years ago. E. Most people in morigia now believe that replacing an old car with a new one has very undesirable ecological consequences
The number of digital cameras sold in the past year increased dramatically over the number of digital cameras sold in the previous year. The Chief Executive Officer of the corporation that produces Digicam, a popular brand of digital camera, proposes to increase production of Digicam products.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most strengthen the argument that the Chief Executive Officer's plan will NOT work?
(A) As a percentage of digital cameras sold, Digicam ' s market share decreased over the past twelve months. (B) The lag time between production and shipment of Digicams has decreased during the last twelve months. (C) Celebrity endorsements have increased Digicam ' s brand recognition, but not awareness of the parent corporation. (D) Digicam is one of the brands most responsible for the increase in digital camera sales during the last twelve months. (E) Sales of Digicam decreased during the last twelve months, despite widespread distribution of coupons in stores and newspapers and on the Internet.
Oops.. totally misread the question in this case... Ended up finding the option that best explains the paradox... :nono:
NEXT Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumers legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.
In the consumer advocates argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization. (B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold. (C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction. (D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction. (E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.
Consumer advocate: it is generally true, at least in this state, that lawyers who advertise a specific service charge less for that service than lawyers who do not advertise. It is also true that each time restrictions on the advertising of legal services have been eliminated, the number of lawyers advertising their services has increased and legal costs to consumers have declined in consequence. However, eliminating the state requirement that legal advertisements must specify fees for specific services would almost certainly increase rather than further reduce consumer's legal costs. Lawyers would no longer have an incentive to lower their fees when they begin advertising and if no longer required to specify fee arrangements, many lawyers who now advertise would increase their fees.
In the consumer advocate's argument, the two portions in boldface play which of the following roles?
(A) The first is a generalization that the consumer advocate accepts as true; the second is presented as a consequence that follows from the truth of that generalization. (B) The first is a pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate argues will be repeated in the case at issue; the second acknowledges a circumstance in which that pattern would not hold. (C) The first is pattern of cause and effect that the consumer advocate predicts will not hold in the case at issue; the second offers a consideration in support of that prediction. (D) The first is evidence that the consumer advocate offers in support of a certain prediction; the second is that prediction. (E) The first acknowledges a consideration that weighs against the main position that the consumer advocate defends; the second is that position.
According to a recent magazine article, of those office employees who typically work 8 hours at the office each day but sometimes say that they will work at home on a particular day, 25 percent actually work less than one hour. At the same time, over 90 percent of those same office employees believe they are more productive working at home than working in their office.
The statements above, if true, best support which of the following conclusions about the office employees discussed in the article?
A. On average, the office employees working at home for a day work fewer hours than office employees working at the office.
B. 10 percent of the office employees are less productive working from home than working in their office.
C. At least 15 percent of the office employees do not define productivity exclusively in terms of the number of hours worked.
D. At least 25 percent of the office employees can complete the same amount of work in one hour at home as in 8 hours at the office.
E. Some of the office employees make statements regarding their productivity that are not in fact true.
The following proposal to amend the bylaws of an organization was circulated to its members for comment. When more than one nominee is to be named for an office, prospective nominees must consent to nomination and before giving such consent must be told who the other nominees will be. Which of the following comments concerning the logic of the proposal is accurate if it cannot be known who the actual nominees are until prospective nominees have given their consent to be nominated? (A) The proposal would make it possible for each of several nominees for an office to be aware of who all of the other nominees are. (B) The proposal would widen the choice available to those choosing among the nominees. (C) If there are several prospective nominees, the proposal would deny the last nominee equal treatment with the first. (D) The proposal would enable a prospective nominee to withdraw from competition with a specific person without making that withdrawal known. (E) If there is more than one prospective nominee, the proposal would make it impossible for anyone to become a nominee.
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