PT126.S1.Q24

PrepTest 126 - Section 1 - Question 24

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Advertisement: Support Researchers studied a group of people trying to lose weight and discovered that those in the group who lost the most weight got more calories from protein than from carbohydrates and ate their biggest meal early in the day. ██ ██████ ███ ███████ ███ █████ █████ ████████ ████ ████████ ████ ███████ ████ ████ ████████ ████ ███ █████ ████████ ████ █████████ ██ ███ ███████ ████ ██ ███ ████ ██ ████ ██ ████ ███████

Summarize Argument

The ad concludes that anyone who follows the ad’s diet will definitely (”be sure to”) lose weight. This is based on a study of people trying to lose weight, which showed that those who lost the most weight got more calories from protein than from carbs and ate the biggest meal early in the day. The ad’s diet involves more calories from protein than from carbs and has breakfast as the biggest meal of the day.

Identify and Describe Flaw

The author overlooks the possibility that the ad’s diet might not help everyone lose weight. Although we know that the people who lost the most weight in the study followed a similar diet, that doesn’t mean everyone who followed that diet in the study lost weight. For example, maybe only 50% who followed that diet lost weight; those who lost weight might have lost a lot, but that doesn’t mean everyone on the diet lost weight.

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24.

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a

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b

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c

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d

some people in ███ █████ ███████ ████ ██ ██████ ███ ███ ████ ████████ ████ ███████ ████ ████ █████████████ ███ ███ █████ ███████ ████ █████ ██ ███ ███

e

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