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The physician concludes that there’ll be an increased risk of heart attack among employees of the company referenced in the stimulus because of the new health program. Why? Because a sudden increase in an exercise regimen can cause heart attacks.
The physician’s conclusion is that the company’s new health program will lead to an increased risk of heart attack for the company’s employees, but the physician’s premise never discusses the health program and what it entails. The premise only discusses how a sudden increase in an exercise regimen can cause heart attacks.
How to get from premise to conclusion? We need to know how the company’s new health program is connected to a sudden increase in an exercise regimen. If we knew that the new health program would cause a sudden increase in employees’ workout regimens, we could reach the conclusion.
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This confirms that the new health program will suddenly increase the exercise regimen of the employees, validating the physician’s conclusion that the new health program will increase the risk of heart attack among the company’s employees.
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(B) doesn’t tell us whether the new health program will lead to a sudden increase in the exercise regimen of the employees. Sure, the exercises in the new program may be more strenuous than those in the previous program, but we don’t know if they’ll cause an abrupt increase in the exercise regimen of the employees.
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(C) doesn’t tell us whether the new health program will lead to a sudden increase in the exercise regimen of the employees. We don’t know if regular exercise will be an abrupt increase in the exercise regimen of the employees.
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Whether or not the new health program constitutes a sudden change in the company’s policy has nothing to do with the physician’s argument. The physician only argues that the new program will increase the risk of heart attack among employees of the company.
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We don’t need to know whether all employees will participate in the new health program. The correct answer choice must point out that the new program will cause a sudden increase in the exercise regimen of the employees who participate in the program.
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