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by prepgmat09 » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:09 am
Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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by reply2spg » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:15 am
Is it D???
prepgmat09 wrote:Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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by outreach » Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:49 am
Q is of the form -> If A then B. if A is true, hence B is true
C should be correct

If comp is used then work efficiency increases. People r using comp, hence more efficient and have more time.
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by loveusonu » Mon Jul 12, 2010 11:22 am
prepgmat09 wrote:Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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Will go with D:
Evidence: city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.
Conclusion:Beautiful beaches attract people.
Assumption: No other factor is responsible for attracting the people at these beaches.

Now for D, same pattern follows:
Evidence:During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather
Conclusion: fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
Assumption: No other factor that fleas are causing problem to Dog during cooler Environment.


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by prepgmat09 » Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:24 pm
reply2spg wrote:Is it D???
prepgmat09 wrote:Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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by loveusonu » Mon Jul 12, 2010 12:30 pm
prepgmat09 wrote:Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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by apex231 » Mon Jul 12, 2010 6:35 pm
Fact -> "Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. "
As a consequence of the above fact -> "Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state."


(C) Fact -> "This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. "
Consequence of the above fact -> "As a result, these users have more free time for other activities. "


(D) Fact -> "During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. "
This is merely a conjecture and may not be necessarily true-> "Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment. "

Choose C.
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by reply2spg » Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:06 pm
Beautiful beaches (X) attract people (Y). As per the statement since Y therefore X.
In D
During warm weather (X) my dog suffers from fleas (Y). Therefore, fleas must thrive (Y) in a warm environment (X). It is as per the original stimulus.

Therefore, D is correct
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reply2spg wrote:Is it D???
prepgmat09 wrote:Beautiful beaches attract people, no doubt about it. Just look at this city's beautiful beaches, which are among the most overcrowded beaches in the state.

Which of the following exhibits a pattern of reasoning most similar to the one exhibited in the argument above?

(A) Moose and bear usually appear at the same drinking hole at the same time of day. Therefore, moose and bear must grow thirsty at about the same time.
(B) Children who are scolded severely tend to misbehave more often than other children. Hence if a child is not scolded severely that child is less likely to misbehave.
(C) This computer program helps increase the work efficiency of its users. As a result, these users have more free time for other activities.
(D) During warm weather my dog suffers from fleas more so than during cooler weather. Therefore, fleas must thrive in a warm environment.
(E) Pesticides are known to cause anemia in some people. However, most anemic people live in regions where pesticides are not commonly used.

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by hardik.jadeja » Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:38 am
Parallel reasoning is not in the scope of GMAT Critical Reasoning. You can ignore such questions in the future.
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by prepgmat09 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 9:57 am
OA is D.
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by apex231 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:08 pm
Is there an OE availble for this question?

How can we eliminate C? and how it is different from D?
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by prepgmat09 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:37 pm
Here is the official explanation:

The original argument bases a conclusion that one phenomenon causes another on an observed correlation between the two phenomena. The argument boils down to the following:

Premise: X (beautiful beach) is correlated with Y (crowd of people).
Conclusion: X (beautiful beach) causes Y (crowd of people).

Answer choice (D) demonstrates the same pattern of reasoning:

Premise: X (warm weather) is correlated with Y (fleas).
Conclusion: X (warm weather) causes Y (fleas).

(A) demonstrates a different pattern of reasoning than the original argument:

Premise: X (moose at the drinking hole) is correlated with Y (bears at the drinking hole).
Conclusion: X (moose) and Y (bear) are both caused by Z (thirst).

(B) demonstrates a different pattern of reasoning than the original argument:

Premise: X (scolding children) is correlated with Y (misbehavior among children).
Assumption: Either X causes Y, or Y causes X.
Conclusion: Not X (no scolding) will be correlated with not Y (no misbehavior).

(C) demonstrates a different pattern of reasoning than the original argument:

Premise: X (software program) causes Y (efficiency).
Assumption: Y (efficiency) causes Z (free time).
Conclusion: X (software program) causes Z (free time).

(E) demonstrates a different pattern of reasoning than the original argument. In fact, (E) is not a complete argument; it contains two premises but no conclusion:

Premise: X (pesticides) causes Y (anemia).
Premise: Not X (pesticide-free regions) is correlated with Y (anemia).


You can check these questions yourself. I picked them from https://www.west.net/~stewart/gmat/gmtestv.htm
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