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Need help with Princeton Review's "Edition 2010 practice test one Section IV question 6"
yinyinxu
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Very confused on this reasoning question. Can anyone help explain?
@yinyinxu said:Admin note: This is a fake question, so take it as you will.
Medical studies indicate that the metabolic rates of professional athletes ar substantially greater than those of the average person. So, most likely, a person's speed and strength are primarily determined by that person's metabolic rate.
Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A. Some of the athletes are either faster or stronger than the average person
B. Some professional athletes do not have higher metabolic rate than some of the average ppl
C. The speed and the strength of ppl who are not professional athletes are not primarily determined by choice of diet and exercise
D. Intensive training such as that engaged in by professional athletes causes an increase in metabolic rate
E. Drugs that surprises metabolic rate have been shown to have the side effect of diminishing the speed and strength of those who are not professional athlete
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Which one of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument?
A. Some of the athletes are either faster or stronger than the average person
B. Some professional athletes do not have higher metabolic rate than some of the average ppl
C. The speed and the strength of ppl who are not professional athletes are not primarily determined by choice of diet and exercise
D. Intensive training such as that engaged in by professional athletes causes an increase in metabolic rate
E. Drugs that surprises metabolic rate have been shown to have the side effect of diminishing the speed and strength of those who are not professional athlete
Burn that book. Or get your money back if you can. Even without explanations, the 10 Actuals books are infinitely better than that PR book you're working with.
B: directly contradicts the first and only premise, so this wouldn't strengthen
C: ok, not determined by diet and excercise... But you would have to make the assumption that not diet and excercise means that met rate is the causal factor which seems to be unwarranted and is definitely unsupported.
E: the only answer remaining. This would strengthen the conclusion, but not the argument per se (because it only deals with the conclusion, and the premise would be irrelevant). It would strenghten the causal conclusion by showing when the cause isn't there, the effect isn't there either. But it really feels like I'm answering a question that asks "what is 2+2?" by picking an answer that says 5, just because the other 4 answers were "apples; TRUMP; sacapunta; and vervet monkeys."
TL;DR... Burn the book