Sorry guys for posting it as an image, i was feeling too lazy to type the whole thing out OA to follow after some quality discussions. Feel free to explain your choices

mals24 wrote:Sorry guys for posting it as an image, i was feeling too lazy to type the whole thing out OA to follow after some quality discussions. Feel free to explain your choices B All others are irrelavant to me

IMO B. The key here is the comparison between country's X and country's Y foreign aid. To weaken, we have to find a comparison which will weaken. Only B is giving this answer.

i thought it was C Y's arg is that their efforts to help 'other countries ' has 'grown'. well if the the most recent amount is a fraction of the original initial amount, then we cant gurantee that their efforts have grown. B is compelling too, for the same reason that iamcste mentions. the other choices are BS. EDIT - OOPS, i just saw that i mixed up X and Y. the answer HAS to be B.

X: 125 Y: 100 This is the usual trend. Option C says that X spent 48 % much of what they spent before: Xnew = 60 So now even tough it looks like Y spent more than X their contribution did not increase, which weakens the conclusion Hence, C

Hi Logitech, According to your explanation Ynew< 60%?? If so ,how ? Please explain

It should be C. Here's why. Only C indicates that Country X spending on foreign aid had fallen hence Country Y's commitment to helping other countries has not grown.

IMO B eracnos - what is the correlation between the spending of Country X and Y's commitment to help other Countries? It is not defined anywhere in the stem..Are they dependent?

Just logically, the fact that Country Y spent more on foreign aid than Country X happened because Country X's spending slumped. Example. 1945 1990 X 1000 100 y 125 125 Country Y's spending remains at the constant, while the country X's fell to 100. ====> Country Y's spending is not growing as it's leaders are arguing. Though correlation between spending and commitment is not stated, in my opinion C is the most logical one. PLZ post the OA!