PT130.S4.Q10

PrepTest 130 - Section 4 - Question 10

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Support Nutritionists believe that a person's daily requirement for vitamins can readily be met by eating five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. ████████ ████ ██████ ███ ███ ████ ████ █████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ ██ ████ ███████ ██████

Argument Summary

Nutritionists say you can meet your daily vitamin requirements by eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Most people don't eat that much. The author concludes that most people need to take vitamin pills.

The hidden move here is treating fruits and vegetables as though they're the only way to get vitamins aside from pills. The author notices a gap between how many fruits and vegetables people eat and how many they'd need to eat to get enough vitamins, and then jumps straight to vitamin pills. But that jump only works if there's no other source of vitamins filling the gap.

Anticipation

To weaken this argument, we want information suggesting that most people might already be getting enough vitamins despite not eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. Maybe there's another source of vitamins the author isn't considering. Another angle is looking for an answer that suggests people don't have to go with vitamin pills to get their vitamins; maybe they can get vitamins some other way.

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10.

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

a

Even five servings ██ ██████ ███ ██████████ █ ███ ██ ████████████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██ ██████ ██ ██████ ████ █████████ ████████ ███ █████████

b

Certain commonly available ██████ ███ ██████████ ███████ ████████████ ████ █████████ ████ ███████

c

Nutritionists sometimes disagree ██ ███ ████ ██ █ █████ ██ █████████ ███████████ █ ████████ ████████

d

Many commonly consumed █████ ████ ███ ███████ ██████ ███ ██████████ ███ █████████ ██ █████████████ ████ ███ ████████ █████ ██ ██████ ███ ███████████

e

Fruits and vegetables ███ ████ █████████ ███████ ██ ██████ ██ █████ ███ █████ ██ ███████ ██████

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