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by arora007 » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:14 am
The Dear One Baby Carrier is the safest and most comfortable baby carrier available today. The hard plastic exterior retains its shape despite minor impacts, protecting baby from the outside, while the thick interior "comfort pad" acts as a shock absorber inside. The interior design has been comfort-tested by thousands of infants, and the exterior handles have been designed with the arms and hands of caring parents in mind. Perhaps best of all, the Dear One Baby Carrier converts easily from an at-large carrier to a car seat, reducing the risk to baby posed by being shifted from one carrier to another.

Which of the following, if true, would most undermine the claim to safety made on behalf of the Dear One Baby Carrier?

A) An infant safety commission announces that most dropping accidents involving infants occur when a parent is the primary caretaker.
B) A survey conducted by a popular magazine reveals that a large number of parents are still not aware of the danger posed to infants by putting their carriers in the front seat.
C) A parents' group endorses the Dear One Baby Carrier as the most convenient baby carrier to take on vacation.
D) A manufacturer adds a "danger of suffocation" label to the bedding used for the interior of the Dear One Baby Carrier.
E) An article written by a pediatrician states that at-large baby carriers do not safely double as car seats.

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OA is E not D,
explantion for D is given as below
Though this option deals with a safety concern, the concern remains between manufacturers, not between the public and the manufacturer of the Dear One, since the padding will likely change forms before being added to the baby carrier.[/spoiler]
is this question GMAT like, and a good question?
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by AIM GMAT » Tue Jan 18, 2011 7:53 am
I too marked the wrong choice. But i got the catch in CR .

The question asks us to undermine the claim to safety made on behalf of the Dear One Baby Carrier .So any option that refutes to the claim made by the Dear One Baby Carrier is the best choice.

If the fight is between D and E , then option D states one additional claim made by the Dear One Baby Carrier which is basically a warning , so this option cannot be the answer as it doesn't refute any claims made by DOBC.

D) A manufacturer adds a “danger of suffocation� label to the bedding used for the interior of the Dear One Baby Carrier.

E) An article written by a pediatrician states that at-large baby carriers do not safely double as car seats.

[Clearly refutes as stated in argument " Perhaps best of all, the Dear One Baby Carrier converts easily from an at-large carrier to a car seat, reducing the risk to baby posed by being shifted from one carrier to another. "]

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by Adam@Knewton » Tue Jan 18, 2011 2:16 pm
I do think this is GMAT-like, although (D) is a very difficult wrong answer choice for them to have included. I agree wholeheartedly with AIM that (E) is exactly what we should be expecting: something that takes one of the features explicitily mentioned in the stimulus and makes it into a safety negative.

The reason to be skeptical of (D) is that a manufacturer adding a label is not a convincing argument that the carrier itself is unsafe, only that one of its components requires a warning label. Reading more carefully, we see that it's simply a label added by the manufacturer to the bedding, NOT to the carrier itself; this may or may not be a danger posed once the bedding is put into the carrier -- which is what I think the above-referenced GMATClub explanation is trying to say. It would be the equivalent of claiming that a car is unsafe because the gasoline has a warning label on it about its flammability. Yes, the gas is dangerous and requires a warning, but the car itself should still be perfectly safe.
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by aleph777 » Fri Jan 21, 2011 12:25 pm
I opted for E over D on the basis of scope. D did seem appealing, but nowhere does suffocation come up in the statement. The discussion of safety refers specifically to impact, rather than other possible dangers (such as suffocation, freezing, sickness, etc). Choice E, on the other hand, specifically undermines the safety of the Baby Carrier by saying baby carriers such as this one do not SAFELY function as car seats, which is a claim made by the statement.