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All good atheletes who want to win are CRITICAL REASONING

by arifaisal123 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:05 am
All good atheletes who want to win are disciplined and have a well balanced diet. Therefore, atheletes who do not have well balanced diets are bad atheletes. Based on the sentence above which of the following strongly supports the view:
a) no bad athelete wants to win
b) no athelete who does not eat a well balanced diet is good athelete
c) every athelete who eats a well balanced diet is good athelete
d) all athelete who want to win are good atheletes
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by parul9 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:35 am
Is it A?
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by 1947 » Sat Oct 08, 2011 8:39 am
arifaisal123 wrote:All good atheletes who want to win are disciplined and have a well balanced diet. Therefore, atheletes who do not have well balanced diets are bad atheletes. Based on the sentence above which of the following strongly supports the view:
a) no bad athelete wants to win
b) no athelete who does not eat a well balanced diet is good athelete
c) every athelete who eats a well balanced diet is good athelete
d) all athelete who want to win are good atheletes
since all good athlete have well balanced diet impleies B
IMO B
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by mehrasa » Mon Oct 10, 2011 3:31 am
has to be B
this is the exact paraphrase of conclusion in the argument (therefore,.....)
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by rohit_gmat » Mon Oct 10, 2011 8:34 am
inference Question...

only B fits becoz its an exact paraphrase of the second sentence
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by boltu_gmat » Mon Oct 10, 2011 9:58 am
.. B ..
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by mankey » Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:47 am
IMO: A.

What is the OA? How can it be B, as someone above says?

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by vaibhavgupta » Fri Nov 11, 2011 10:11 pm
arifaisal123 wrote:All good atheletes who want to win are disciplined and have a well balanced diet. Therefore, atheletes who do not have well balanced diets are bad atheletes. Based on the sentence above which of the following strongly supports the view:
a) no bad athelete wants to win
b) no athelete who does not eat a well balanced diet is good athelete
c) every athelete who eats a well balanced diet is good athelete
d) all athelete who want to win are good atheletes
+1 for A

Looking for OA! :)
If OA is A, IMO B
If OA is B, IMO C
If OA is C, IMO D
If OA is D, IMO E
If OA is E, IMO A

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by crick » Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:15 am
This cannot be a GMAT question. The reasoning is absolutely flawed here.

Using formal reasoning

Fact 1: Good Atheletes, who want to win --> Disciplined AND Well balanced diet.
Contrapositive of Fact 1 : ~ Disciplined OR ~ Well balanced diet --> ~ Good atheletes who want to win.

Conclusion : ~Well balanced diet --> Bad athelete.

Problem : Strengthen the argument

Soln: The correct choice would be
Bad athelete = ~Good athelete who wants to win.

A can be the closest possible answer.

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by tuanquang269 » Sun Nov 13, 2011 5:46 pm
arifaisal123 wrote: Therefore, atheletes who do not have well balanced diets are bad atheletes.
b) no athelete who does not eat a well balanced diet is good athelete
IMO B. You can see two sentences are not different :D.
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