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by gmatman1 » Sun Dec 28, 2008 11:47 am
(A) is False. In my opinion it is very clear why this statement does not weaken the argument.

(B) is False. Our knowledge of the underlying mechanisms does not affect reality! The statement does not weaken the argument.

(C) is True. This fact would seriously weaken the argument. Extra ingredients might make a big difference!

(D) is False. This fact is totally irrelevant and therefore does not weaken the argument.

(E) is False. This fact does not weaken the argument.
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by cramya » Sun Dec 28, 2008 4:06 pm
The argument is that the spray is more efective than the gel (even though the ingreduients/conc is same for both ) since the cold virus tends to be more concentarted around the nose.


Choice C) weakens the argument by saying that there could be a different reason why gels are not effective -> since these contain citrci acid that interfere with the chemical effects of zinc in treating cold.
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by Indradeep » Mon Dec 29, 2008 12:22 am
Doesn't C provide an explanation to why zinc logenzes are not as effective. I donot understand how this could weaken the argument.
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by bkumars8 » Tue Jun 30, 2009 3:30 am
I'll go with B.
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by raghavsarathy » Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:25 am
IMO - C

The argument is if the zinc content is more effective when applied to the nose than when taken orally.

C weakens this because it states that it is not the zinc in the logozenes which is inefective. Instead , the other ingredients make it ineffective.

OA ?
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by ketkoag » Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:53 am
Indradeep wrote:Doesn't C provide an explanation to why zinc logenzes are not as effective. I donot understand how this could weaken the argument.
C gives an alternative reason(other than the presence of cold virus in nose..) why zinc logenzes are not effective and thats what we want in order to weaken the argument..
hence C is the best choice..
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by madhur_ahuja » Wed Jul 01, 2009 3:37 am
Vote for C. E strengthens the argument rather than weakening it.
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by gmat_dest » Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:26 am
Should be C. It weakens the conclusion by providing a alternate reason for why the Zinc lozenges did not work.
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by Sharma_Gaurav » Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:34 pm
answer C

Because we do not have any other choice which says that Zinc zel effectiveness is not due to the viruses= nose concentration , but due to some other reason, hence only other method to weaken the arg is to find a choice which gives a explanaiton to say why the zinc logonozes does not work - due to extra ingredient.
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by microke » Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:55 pm
IMO E.
The conclusion here is : More virus in NOSE than in MOUTH.

If the research experiments shows the same results for gel (mouth) as well as spray ( NOSE), then in totality, both are ineffective in treating the cold and conclusively there can not be more virus in the nose.

OA-Please.
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by armaan700+ » Wed Jul 29, 2009 9:33 pm
IMO C

My reason is that it can be weaken by either proving that some property of gel not present in logozenes is making it effective
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some property of logozenes not in gel is making it ineffective.

only c provides the later information so it has to correct
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by yogami » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:25 pm
I went with C due to absurd reasons. First of all if this was real gmat I would have gone with A or C, maybe A more!!
But since you already marked A and then posted the question I assumed that you needed clarification on why you were wrong. But to be dead honest A and C are very close man!!
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by viju9162 » Thu Jul 30, 2009 1:14 am
Yes, A & C is very close. I will also go with C
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by joseph32 » Sun May 15, 2016 8:57 pm
Looking at it now, A makes sense
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