Self-study
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Stimulus Summary
There's no argument in this stimulus. We're just given the background information that nutritionists have recommended that people eat more fiber. Then we're told that this new pill is advertised simply as containing 44% fiber.
Analysis: Weakening Implied Argument
The question stem asks us to identify a situation where this advertisement is "misleading" in the information it focuses on. Presumably, the point of the advertisements is to get people to buy this pill by taking advantage of the fact that nutritionists are telling people to eat more fiber. So focusing on the "44% fiber" information is probably meant to make people think that consuming this pill will help them consume more fiber. Even though there isn't an argument directly in the stimulus, you can think of this question as asking us to weaken the implied argument of the advertisers — that people should buy this pill because it would help them consume more fiber. If 44% of this pill doesn't actually work out to a lot of fiber, or if not all of the fiber in the pills is the kind that is useful for people to consume, that would undermine this implied argument and make the advertisements misleading.
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a
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Incorrect. Just because there are other pills on the market that contain fiber doesn't make these advertisements misleading.
b
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Incorrect. The advertisements state that they contain a certain amount of fiber, but they don't talk about the benefits of fiber. So the specific reasons why nutritionists recommend eating more fiber can't make the advertisements misleading, since the advertisements don't make claims about those reasons.
c
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Incorrect. Just because it's possible to become addicted to "some" kinds of advertised pills doesn't mean these pills are addictive, and even if they were, that wouldn't necessarily make the advertisement about how much fiber these pills contain misleading.
d
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Incorrect. The advertisements don't make any claims or imply anything about how many of these pills you need to take each day. So it wouldn't make the advertisements "misleading" if the label recommends taking three pills a day. If you picked this answer choice, maybe you thought that three pills would work out to 44% times three, or 136% of the fiber someone is meant to consume in a day — but remember that the 44% in the advertisement is not 44% of the daily recommended fiber intake, but just 44% of the composition of each pill. We don't actually know how much fiber that is, so it's perfectly possible for each pill to contain 44% fiber and for the recommended dosage to still be three pills daily.
e
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Correct. Remember that the goal of the advertisements is to get people to buy these pills because they think the pills will help them consume more fiber, as the nutritionists recommend. But if the recommended amount of fiber to consume daily is 20 to 30 grams, and each of these pills only contains a third of a gram, then these pills won't actually help people get the amount of fiber they need, even if each pill is 44% fiber. So by stating the percentage of each pill that is fiber, the advertisements are obscuring the fact that the overall amount of fiber in each pill is actually tiny.