PT127.S3.Q20

PrepTest 127 - Section 3 - Question 20

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Newspaper article: Conclusion People who take vitamin C supplements tend to be healthier than average. ████ ███ █████ ██ █ █████ █████████████ ███ ████████████ ███████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ █ ███ █████ ████████ █████ ██████ ████ ██████ ███ █████████ ███████ ████ █████ ██ ███████ █ ███████████ ████ █ █████████████ █████ ████ ███████ ████ ██ █████ ████████

Summarize Argument

The author concludes that people who take vitamin C supplements tend to be healthier than average. This is because a study showed that people who regularly consume high doses of vitamin C supplements have a much lower than average risk of heart disease.

Notable Assumptions

The author assumes that taking vitamin C supplements doesn’t cause any harm to overall health that could outweigh the benefits of lower risk of heart disease. (Maybe vitamin C supplements lead to a higher risk of kidney disease? If so, we can’t conclude that people who take vitamin C supplements are healthier than average.)

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20.

Which one of the following, ██ █████ █████ ████ ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███ █████████ ████████

a

Vitamin C taken ██ ███ ████ ██ ███████████ ███ █ █████████ ██████ ██ ███ ████ ████ ████ ███████ █ █████ ██ █████

b

The reduction in ████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ██ ███ ███████████ ██ ███████ █ ██ ██ ███████ ████ ███ █████████ ███ ██ ███████ █████ ███████ ████████

c

Taking both vitamin █ ███████████ ███ ███████ █ ███████████ ██████ █████ ████ ██ █████ ███████ ███ ████ ████ ████ ██████ ██████ ███ ██████

d

High doses of ███████ █ ███████████ ████ ██ ██████ ████████ █████ ██████████ ██ ███████ ██████ ██████████ █████████

e

Taking vitamin C ███████████ ███ ████ █████ ██ █████ █████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███████

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