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Lightning Post Sun May 20, 2012 10:09 pm
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    Frieda: Lightning causes fires and damages electronic equipment. Since lightning rods can prevent any major damage, every building should have one.

    Erik: Your recommendation is pointless. It is true that lightning occasionally causes fires, but faulty wiring and overloaded circuits cause far more fires and damage to equipment than lightning does.

    Erik’s response fails to establish that Frieda’s recommendation should not be acted on because his response

    (A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda’s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage
    (B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning
    (C) appeals to Frieda’s emotions rather than to her reason
    (D) introduces an irrelevant comparison between overloaded circuits and faulty wiring
    (E) confuses the notion of preventing damage with that of causing inconvenience

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    Post Mon May 21, 2012 5:12 am
    C

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    Post Mon May 21, 2012 1:31 pm
    B- coz freda speaks abt lightning and he fails to tell abt that

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    Post Tue May 22, 2012 8:52 am
    OA??

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    Post Tue May 22, 2012 9:52 am
    A is the only choice that seems right.
    Rest all are fluff.

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    Post Tue May 22, 2012 11:27 am
    I think A is the answer. Can you please confirm?

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    Post Fri May 25, 2012 2:54 am
    got to A and B . Finally IMO A

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    Post Fri May 25, 2012 10:55 am
    GmatKiss wrote:
    Frieda: Lightning causes fires and damages electronic equipment. Since lightning rods can prevent any major damage, every building should have one.

    Erik: Your recommendation is pointless. It is true that lightning occasionally causes fires, but faulty wiring and overloaded circuits cause far more fires and damage to equipment than lightning does.

    Erik’s response fails to establish that Frieda’s recommendation should not be acted on because his response

    (A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda’s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage
    (B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning
    (C) appeals to Frieda’s emotions rather than to her reason
    (D) introduces an irrelevant comparison between overloaded circuits and faulty wiring
    (E) confuses the notion of preventing damage with that of causing inconvenience
    IMO A

    Frieda:: Suggests a way to prevent lightning fires
    Erik: Concludes recommendation is pointless... and gives a reason of other causes of fires

    Q/s stem -->Erik’s response fails to establish that Frieda’s recommendation should not be acted on because his response --> what is the flaw in Eric's conclusion ..



    (A) does not show that the benefits that would follow from Frieda’s recommendation would be offset by any disadvantage
    Absolutely correct.. Eric is not able to point out what i the disadvantage with the method suggested by Frieda

    (B) does not offer any additional way of lessening the risk associated with lightning
    ..Even if eric gives other additional choices.. it has to prove why they are better...and why Frieda's method is pointless

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    Post Sat May 26, 2012 12:22 am
    A for me what is the OA

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