Common cold...

gmatrant · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:55 pm Post subject: Common cold...

Some people have been promoting a new herbal mixture
as a remedy for the common cold. The mixture contains,
among other things, extracts of the plants purple coneflower
and goldenseal. A cold sufferer, skeptical of the
claim that the mixture is an effective cold remedy, argued,
“Suppose that the mixture were an effective cold remedy.
Since most people with colds wish to recover quickly, it
follows that almost everybody with a cold would be using
it. Therefore, since there are many people who have colds
but do not use the mixture, it is obviously not effective.”

Each of the following is an assumption required by
the skeptical cold sufferer’s argument EXCEPT:

(A) Enough of the mixture is produced to provide the
required doses to almost everybody with a cold.

(B) The mixture does not have side effects severe
enough to make many people who have colds
avoid using it.

(C) The mixture is powerful enough to prevent
almost everybody who uses it from
contracting any further colds.

(D) The mixture is widely enough known that
almost everybody with a cold is aware of it.

(E) There are no effective cold remedies available
that many people who have colds prefer to the mixture

OA is C,
I could not choose between C and E
Pls explain

jangojess · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

the person is just concerned about effectiveness of mixture available to cure the cold evryone suffers...there is no need of assuming whether the mixture wud be powerful enuf to prevent further cold....this wud be out of scope...he just have to think only about the current situation

dingo001 · Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 7:25 am Post subject: Re: Common cold...