1000CR Question No 9 : LSATII

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samyak: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 90; Joined: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:41 pm

by samyak » Thu May 13, 2010 9:37 am

9. Advertisement: Clark brand-name parts are made for cars manufactured in this country. They satisfy all of our government automotive test-the toughest such tests in the world. With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs. Therefore, be smart and insist on brand-name parts by Clark for your car.
The argument requires the assumption that
(A) Clark parts are available only in this country
(B) foreign-made parts are not suitable for cars manufactured in this country
(C) no foreign-made parts satisfy our government standards
(D) parts that satisfy our government standards are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts
(E) if parts are made for cars manufactured in our country, they are not poorly constructed

IMO C/D shouls be the ans. OA is B. Please give me your feedbacks.

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xyztroy: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 24; Joined: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:05 pm

by xyztroy » Thu May 13, 2010 9:43 am

Are you sure about the OA. answer should be D.

samyak wrote:9. Advertisement: Clark brand-name parts are made for cars manufactured in this country. They satisfy all of our government automotive test-the toughest such tests in the world. With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs. Therefore, be smart and insist on brand-name parts by Clark for your car.
The argument requires the assumption that
(A) Clark parts are available only in this country
(B) foreign-made parts are not suitable for cars manufactured in this country
(C) no foreign-made parts satisfy our government standards
(D) parts that satisfy our government standards are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts
(E) if parts are made for cars manufactured in our country, they are not poorly constructed

IMO C/D shouls be the ans. OA is B. Please give me your feedbacks.

samyak: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 90; Joined: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:41 pm

by samyak » Thu May 13, 2010 9:58 am

That's what is I have in the ans sheet. Lets try to understand how you rejected C & ended up with D

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by analyst218 » Thu May 13, 2010 10:20 am

samyak wrote:9. Advertisement: Clark brand-name parts are made for cars manufactured in this country. They satisfy all of our government automotive test-the toughest such tests in the world. With foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed and liable to cost you hundreds of dollars in repairs. Therefore, be smart and insist on brand-name parts by Clark for your car.
The argument requires the assumption that
(A) Clark parts are available only in this country
(B) foreign-made parts are not suitable for cars manufactured in this country
(C) no foreign-made parts satisfy our government standards
(D) parts that satisfy our government standards are not as poorly constructed as cheap foreign-made parts
(E) if parts are made for cars manufactured in our country, they are not poorly constructed

IMO C/D shouls be the ans. OA is B. Please give me your feedbacks.

I think B because the passage is talking about cars IN the country.
Clark is good for domestic cars only. The passage is telling us choosing Clark is smart decision.
Why? b/c we're talking about domestic cars. here lies an assumption that foreign parts are no good for domestic cars.

samyak: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 90; Joined: Sat Mar 27, 2010 10:41 pm

by samyak » Thu May 13, 2010 10:37 am

@analyst218: Your reasoning sounds more like a conclusion than an assumption of the argument. Can you please elaborate further & let me understand why do you think c/d are not correct assumptions.

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by analyst218 » Thu May 13, 2010 11:17 am

samyak wrote:@analyst218: Your reasoning sounds more like a conclusion than an assumption of the argument. Can you please elaborate further & let me understand why do you think c/d are not correct assumptions.

well if foreign cars were suitable for domestic cars, why else would choice of Clarks be a smart choice?

xyztroy: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 24; Joined: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:05 pm

by xyztroy » Thu May 13, 2010 6:07 pm

samyak wrote:That's what is I have in the ans sheet. Lets try to understand how you rejected C & ended up with D

with foreign-made parts, you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed...<- This stmt implies that not all foreign made parts are cheap and not all are reliable....
C -> says that all foreign parts are not good

ansumania: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 301; Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2010 3:18 pm; Thanked: 4 times

by ansumania » Thu May 13, 2010 8:04 pm

still fail to understand how B could be somewhere near the answer.....

will somone pl. explain in detail?

xyztroy: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 24; Joined: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:05 pm

by xyztroy » Fri May 14, 2010 4:29 am

ansumania wrote:still fail to understand how B could be somewhere near the answer.....

will somone pl. explain in detail?

B is not the OA...I checked the other sources....OA is D.

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by Domnu » Fri May 14, 2010 4:42 am

Neither B nor C can be the correct answer... the statement claims that "you never know which might be reliable and which are cheap look-alikes that are poorly constructed." Note that it is still possible to buy reliable foreign parts.

A - out of scope
E - other manufactured car parts in the country aren't mentioned. It's possible that Clark brand-name parts are the only good parts in the country.

Therefore, we're left with D.

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