Consumer health advocate: Your candy company adds caffeine to your chocolate candy bars so that each one delivers a specified amount of caffeine. Since caffeine is highly addictive, this indicates that you intend to keep your customers addicted. Candy manufacturer: Our manufacturing process results in there being les caffeine in each chocolate candy bar than in the unprocessed cacao beans from which the chocolate is made. The candy manufacturers response is flawed as a refutation of the consumer health advocates argument because it
(A) fails to address the issue of whether the level of caffeine in the candy bars sold by the manufacture is enough to keep people addicted
(B) assumes without warrant that all unprocessed cacao beans contain a uniform amount of caffeine
(C) does not specify exactly how caffeine is lost in the manufacturing process
(D) treats the consumer heal advocates argument as though it were about each candy bar rather than about the manufacturers candy in general
(E) merely contradicts the consumer health advocates conclusion without giving any reason to believe that the advocates reasoning is unsound
IMO A.
Reason-:- The candy manufacturer argues that the level of caffeine is less in each candy bar as compared to unprocessed cacao beans. But the Question here is that whether that less caffeine is enough to cause an addition? i feel the candy manufacturer's argument is weak here.
Consumer health advocate: Your candy company adds caffeine to your chocolate candy bars so that each one delivers a specified amount of caffeine. Since caffeine is highly addictive, this indicates that you intend to keep your customers addicted. Candy manufacturer: Our manufacturing process results in there being les caffeine in each chocolate candy bar than in the unprocessed cacao beans from which the chocolate is made. The candy manufacturer's response is flawed as a refutation of the consumer health advocate's argument because it
(A) fails to address the issue of whether the level of caffeine in the candy bars sold by the manufacture is enough to keep people addicted
(B) assumes without warrant that all unprocessed cacao beans contain a uniform amount of caffeine
(C) does not specify exactly how caffeine is lost in the manufacturing process
(D) treats the consumer heal advocate's argument as though it were about each candy bar rather than about the manufacturer's candy in general
(E) merely contradicts the consumer health advocate's conclusion without giving any reason to believe that the advocate's reasoning is unsound
you are right on target... here is the OE:In the dialogue, the candy manufacturer tries to rebut the claim that caffeine is added to chocolate candy bars in order to keep consumers addicted. The rebuttal is that the caffeine added is restoring to the product caffeine that was lost during manufacture. The question asks you to identify why this rebuttal is inadequate. Choice A is the best answer. The candy manufacturers rebuttal amounts to an admission that the candy bars could be manufactured to contain less caffeine than they do. Therefore, the crucial issue for assessing the health advocates account of the reason for adding the caffeine is whether the amount of caffeine added is enough to make the candy addictive.
Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation's officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. The facts above best support which of the following predictions? (A) The imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further. (B) Inside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly. (C) The price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up. (D) The price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly. (E) The majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGA's own officers and directors.
Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporations officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. The facts above best support which of the following predictions? (A) The imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further. (B) Inside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly. (C) The price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up. (D) The price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly. (E) The majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGAs own officers and directors.
IMO C.
Share Price is directly proportional to Purchase volume and inversely proportional to Sale Volume. Now since the prices of MEGA corporation stock were falling, it means the Purchase volume is decreasing or sale volume is increasing. Now overall high purchase by the corporation's officers will increase the Purchase Volume and hence the price of stock will go up.
Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporations officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. The facts above best support which of the following predictions? (A) The imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further. --------there was an imbalance of 2/1 and now it will grow even further.
(B) Inside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly.
(C) The price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up.--------this rise as indicated in the psg. is (imminent) i.e likely,we can't say for sure stock price will rise,we can only say investor confidence will build up.
(D) The price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly.
(E) The majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGAs own officers and directors. -----------we don't know the exact vol. of sales and purchases , also we don't know no. of corporations officers and directors, so we can't comment on the stock percentage.
Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporation's officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. The facts above best support which of the following predictions? (A) The imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further. (B) Inside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly. (C) The price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up. (D) The price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly. (E) The majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGA's own officers and directors.
Corporate officers and directors commonly buy and sell, for their own portfolios, stock in their own corporations. Generally, when the ratio of such inside sales to inside purchases falls below 2 to 1 for a given stock, a rise in stock prices is imminent. In recent days, while the price of MEGA Corporation stock has been falling, the corporations officers and directors have bought up to nine times as much of it as they have sold. The facts above best support which of the following predictions? (A) The imbalance between inside purchases and inside sales of MEGA stock will grow even further. (B) Inside purchases of MEGA stock are about to cease abruptly. (C) The price of MEGA stock will soon begin to go up. (D) The price of MEGA stock will continue to drop, but less rapidly. (E) The majority of MEGA stock will soon be owned by MEGAs own officers and directors.
HMS Ashburn, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific because of a hole in her hull. Sabotage is considered the reason for the hole that sank HMS Ashburn. Normally, when a holed ship sinks as fast as the Ashburn did, water does not fully flood the ship by the time the ship reaches the ocean floor. However, full flooding can be achieved by sabotage. Any ship that sinks deep into the ocean when not fully flooded will implode. However, deep-sea photographs reveal that HMS Ashburn did not implode. Which one of the following must be true on the basis of the information given above?
1. As the ship did not implode, HMS Ashburn must have sunk slowly. 2. The Ashburn would have imploded, had she not sunk so fast. 3. If the Ashburn was not sunk by sabotage, water flooded into her unusually fast. 4. HMS Ashburn became fully flooded only after reaching the ocean's bottom.
HMS Ashburn, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific because of a hole in her hull. Sabotage is considered the reason for the hole that sank HMS Ashburn. Normally, when a holed ship sinks as fast as the Ashburn did, water does not fully flood the ship by the time the ship reaches the ocean floor. However, full flooding can be achieved by sabotage. Any ship that sinks deep into the ocean when not fully flooded will implode. However, deep-sea photographs reveal that HMS Ashburn did not implode. Which one of the following must be true on the basis of the information given above?
1. As the ship did not implode, HMS Ashburn must have sunk slowly. 2. The Ashburn would have imploded, had she not sunk so fast. 3. If the Ashburn was not sunk by sabotage, water flooded into her unusually fast. 4. HMS Ashburn became fully flooded only after reaching the oceans bottom.
IMO 3.
The data provided above clearly states that some sabortage has happened. If it is not the sabotage then something unusual happened.
HMS Ashburn, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific because of a hole in her hull. Sabotage is considered the reason for the hole that sank HMS Ashburn. Normally, when a holed ship sinks as fast as the Ashburn did, water does not fully flood the ship by the time the ship reaches the ocean floor. However, full flooding can be achieved by sabotage. Any ship that sinks deep into the ocean when not fully flooded will implode. However, deep-sea photographs reveal that HMS Ashburn did not implode. Which one of the following must be true on the basis of the information given above?
1. As the ship did not implode, HMS Ashburn must have sunk slowly. 2. The Ashburn would have imploded, had she not sunk so fast. 3. If the Ashburn was not sunk by sabotage, water flooded into her unusually fast. 4. HMS Ashburn became fully flooded only after reaching the ocean's bottom.
HMS Ashburn, a passenger ship, sank to the bottom of the Pacific because of a hole in her hull. Sabotage is considered the reason for the hole that sank HMS Ashburn. Normally, when a holed ship sinks as fast as the Ashburn did, water does not fully flood the ship by the time the ship reaches the ocean floor. However, full flooding can be achieved by sabotage. Any ship that sinks deep into the ocean when not fully flooded will implode. However, deep-sea photographs reveal that HMS Ashburn did not implode. Which one of the following must be true on the basis of the information given above?
1. As the ship did not implode, HMS Ashburn must have sunk slowly. 2. The Ashburn would have imploded, had she not sunk so fast. 3. If the Ashburn was not sunk by sabotage, water flooded into her unusually fast. 4. HMS Ashburn became fully flooded only after reaching the oceans bottom.
For the first half of the 20th century, we journalists understood that our role was to report politicians on their own terms. We did not try to interpret, still less challenge. On the contrary, it was understood that the role of a parliamentary correspondent was to set down and describe the words and actions of the leading statesmen of the day. __________ It was assumed that the reader would reach his own judgment. In his early novels, Christopher Isherwood insisted that he sought to convey an unrefracted version of reality to the general reader. "I am a Camera", he said. Political journalists had exactly the same objectives.
(1) A reporter had an ideological backbone, focused much on presentation, asked soft questions and was accused of failing to provide fresh insight. (2) A reporter followed a parliamentarian to his constituency, sat on his private meeting and was granted the liberty of asking anything he liked. (3) Political opinions on any subject were only produced in laboratory conditions after market testing and rigorous consultations. (4) Political speeches would be reported on newspaper front pages, often spread over several columns, the day after they were made.
(5) The art of the reporter is no longer to report a political speech rather it is to identify and then isolate a sentence or off-the-cuff remark which will make news.
sorry hungrymind, but the correct answer is C. Since MEGAs officers and directors have bought almost nine ties as much of MEGAs stock as they have sold, the ratio of inside sales to inside purchases is roughly 1 to 9, well below 2 to 1. Hence, by the generalization stated in the passage, a rise in MEGAs stock price is imminent and choice C is the best answer.
For the first half of the 20th century, we journalists understood that our role was to report politicians on their own terms. We did not try to interpret, still less challenge. On the contrary, it was understood that the role of a parliamentary correspondent was to set down and describe the words and actions of the leading statesmen of the day. __________ It was assumed that the reader would reach his own judgment. In his early novels, Christopher Isherwood insisted that he sought to convey an unrefracted version of reality to the general reader. "I am a Camera", he said. Political journalists had exactly the same objectives. (1) A reporter had an ideological backbone, focused much on presentation, asked soft questions and was accused of failing to provide fresh insight. (2) A reporter followed a parliamentarian to his constituency, sat on his private meeting and was granted the liberty of asking anything he liked. (3) Political opinions on any subject were only produced in laboratory conditions after market testing and rigorous consultations. (4) Political speeches would be reported on newspaper front pages, often spread over several columns, the day after they were made. (5) The art of the reporter is no longer to report a political speech rather it is to identify and then isolate a sentence or off-the-cuff remark which will make news.
holy goodness, that was he__ of a question... my take is option E. the only choice stating the art of the reporter was once upon a time to report political speech as it is. This is followed by the assumption that reader will reach his own judgement. Also choice A is close. but still i would pick E over A. Please post OA with explanation.
For the first half of the 20th century, we journalists understood that our role was to report politicians on their own terms. We did not try to interpret, still less challenge. On the contrary, it was understood that the role of a parliamentary correspondent was to set down and describe the words and actions of the leading statesmen of the day. __________ It was assumed that the reader would reach his own judgment. In his early novels, Christopher Isherwood insisted that he sought to convey an unrefracted version of reality to the general reader. "I am a Camera", he said. Political journalists had exactly the same objectives.
(1) A reporter had an ideological backbone, focused much on presentation, asked soft questions and was accused of failing to provide fresh insight.---breaks continuity (2) A reporter followed a parliamentarian to his constituency, sat on his private meeting and was granted the liberty of asking anything he liked.---nothing is indicated of what he reported. (3) Political opinions on any subject were only produced in laboratory conditions after market testing and rigorous consultations. ---if this was done then what is left for readers to judge?
(4) Political speeches would be reported on newspaper front pages, often spread over several columns, the day after they were made. -------it follows the continuity and also is related to the next part that readers gave their own judgements.Also, "the day after they were made" and "I am a Camera"gives a hint that speeches were merely reported..
(5) The art of the reporter is no longer to report a political speech rather it is to identify and then isolate a sentence or off-the-cuff remark which will make news.----it talks about present times and breaks the continuity of reports given by correspondents in 1st half of 20th century
My take is 4) ----
Pl. identify flaw in the reasoning if it is wrong.....
The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yet the book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is: why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for are the people you are writing about. But the Booker - undoubtedly an important literary prize - has become so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about the Booker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________ (1) In our country the obsession with 'labels' is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent desire for recognition from the so-called 'white- elite'. (2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or America as its centre. (3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize over the ones that receive domestic honours. (4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by the people of a culture richer than that of the British. (5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion.
The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yet the book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is: why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for are the people you are writing about. But the Booker undoubtedly an important literary prize has become so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about the Booker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________ (1) In our country the obsession with labels is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent desire for recognition from the so-called white- elite. (2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or America as its centre. (3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize over the ones that receive domestic honours. (4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by the people of a culture richer than that of the British. (5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion.
what is the question btw? is it "why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country?" i am stumped here if that is the question...
The Booker is a prize awarded by the British literary establishment according to its value system; yet the book that receives it becomes, in our country, the most important book of its time. The question is: why do we have to wholeheartedly accept their valuation and dismiss the response of readers in this country? Even Salman Rushdie, that most international of writers, says that the readers you write for are the people you are writing about. But the Booker undoubtedly an important literary prize has become so important to us that while we ignore the prizes given in our country, discussions about the Booker longlist, and then about the shortlist go on for months. ________________________ (1) In our country the obsession with labels is what helps us to metaphorically spell out our latent desire for recognition from the so-called white- elite. (2) To talk of subversion makes it seem that Indian Writing in English (IWE) still thinks of Europe or America as its centre. (3) The fault lies with the readers as they prefer reading the books that receive an international prize over the ones that receive domestic honours. (4) The Booker should not be held as a benchmark for deciding the greatness of a book especially by the people of a culture richer than that of the British. (5) This makes it hard to accept the argument that winning the Booker is an act of subversion.
IMO (1). Although (5) is also close but it looks confusing.
