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by moonlite » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:35 pm
Editor: We use the computer to check the length of our articles, but surprisingly there is good reason to believe that the word count it provides is inaccurate. Several times when an article's words were carefully counted by our most reliable copy editor, the resulting count differed from the count the computer gave.

The editor's reasoning relies on which of the following assumptions?

(A) The criteria that the computer uses in determining what constitutes a single word differ from the criteria that the copy editor uses.
(B) The inaccuracy of the computer's word count does not result from a malfunction of the computer itself.
(C) It would be possible to modify the computer so that it counted words more accurately.
(D) A careful count by the copy editor is unlikely to be less accurate than the computer's count
(E) The accuracy of the computer's word count is not dependent on the length of the article that it is measuring.

Please explain the OA - D
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by ketkoag » Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:49 pm
answer is D because in the argument the it has not been mentioned that the most reliable copy editor is accurate than the machine and this is necessary for the comparison made in the conclusion to be true. So this is an assumption made by the argument. thus other choices are irrelevant.
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by moonlite » Mon Apr 20, 2009 1:10 pm
It sure does! Thanks.
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by 4seasoncentre » Mon Apr 20, 2009 3:47 pm
(A) The criteria that the computer uses in determining what constitutes a single word differ from the criteria that the copy editor uses.
the editor does not assume this. If this were the problem, the editor would not think the computer was being inaccurate.
(B) The inaccuracy of the computer's word count does not result from a malfunction of the computer itself.
The editor does not assume this. The editor would believe that this could be a potential explanation.
(C) It would be possible to modify the computer so that it counted words more accurately.
the editor does not assume this. if he/she did, he/she would probably modify it!
(D) A careful count by the copy editor is unlikely to be less accurate than the computer's count
(E) The accuracy of the computer's word count is not dependent on the length of the article that it is measuring.
Out of scope. No reason to believe the editor assumes this.
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by ashley.com » Sun May 15, 2016 4:19 am
I feel the answer will be D.
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