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actually i dont know which option i should choose but i prefer D to B because B says taking drug alone cant below nomal blood pressure while we just need to take drug in order to balance the high blood pressureShawshank wrote:hi,
Please provide your answers with explanations.
Very good question..whats the source ?Shawshank wrote:OA - D
why is A wrong ?hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO A.
If the patients with high blood pressure are also regularly exercising and still having high blood pressure then the claim given the argument is false.
Although option D also looks like a contender to me, I would go with A. Nice question by the way.. thanks for posting it.
Now I see why D is the answer, not A.nikhilkatira wrote:why is A wrong ?hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO A.
If the patients with high blood pressure are also regularly exercising and still having high blood pressure then the claim given the argument is false.
Although option D also looks like a contender to me, I would go with A. Nice question by the way.. thanks for posting it.
thanks hardik for your explanation.hardik.jadeja wrote:Now I see why D is the answer, not A.nikhilkatira wrote:why is A wrong ?hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO A.
If the patients with high blood pressure are also regularly exercising and still having high blood pressure then the claim given the argument is false.
Although option D also looks like a contender to me, I would go with A. Nice question by the way.. thanks for posting it.
Both A and D looked like a contender to me because I thought both are saying the same thing. But they are not.
The passage talks about the effects of exercising only on normal-blood pressure patients and it says that they never developed high-blood pressure because of exercising.
The main point of argument is the comparison between the effects of a certain drug and the effects of exercising.
The conclusion - Exercising regularly is better than the new drug
Reasons- Exercising helped 80% of normal-blood pressure patients maintain their blood-pressure level normal. Whereas the effects of the drug(only 30% to 10%) are not as good as exercising.
To prove this conclusion we need to see whether exercising could help more high-blood pressure patients than the drug could help. Only than the conclusion stands true.
Option D says exercising has same effect on blood-pressure in all patients. In a way, D is saying if high-blood pressure patients exercise regularly, 80% of them will be able to maintain their blood-pressure to normal level. That's what we need, the figure of 80%(more than 30%), to prove the conclusion.
Option A says none of the patients with high-blood pressure exercise regularly. I thought If we validate this fact and find that some of them do exercise regularly and still have high-blood pressure, then this finding will help us determine the effects of exercising on patients with high-blood pressure. But even though some of the patients do exercise regularly and still have high-blood pressure, it doesn't help us prove the conclusion as the passage claims that exercise helps only 80% of the patients.
You may find my explanation confusing, since I am feeling sleepy.
Hi Hardikhardik.jadeja wrote: Option A says none of the patients with high-blood pressure exercise regularly. I thought If we validate this fact and find that some of them do exercise regularly and still have high-blood pressure, then this finding will help us determine the effects of exercising on patients with high-blood pressure. But even though some of the patients do exercise regularly and still have high-blood pressure, it doesn't help us prove the conclusion as the passage claims that exercise helps only 80% of the patients.
You may find my explanation confusing, since I am feeling sleepy.
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