OG 10 CR question

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OG 10 CR question

by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:02 am
A study of National football League Statistics over the last ten years reveals that the loosing team threw more interceptions than did the winning team in 82 percent of the games played. This statistics clearly indicate that interceptions contribute greatly to team losses.

The conclusion in the above argument depends on which of the following assumptions?
A. Fumbles do not hurt a team's chances of winning a game.
B. A team's chances of winning a game are greatly reduced if it throws any interceptions during a game.
C. A team that throws more interceptions than its opponent does and still wins the game must have superior players.
D. Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game.
E. Interceptions are harmfull primarily because they make it easy for the other team to score points.
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by poonam1279 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:12 am
B. A team's chances of winning a game are greatly reduced if it throws any interceptions during a game.
What is OA?

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by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:16 am
poonam1279 wrote:B. A team's chances of winning a game are greatly reduced if it throws any interceptions during a game.
What is OA?
Can you please give the reasoning why you choose this option, please be little patient for the OA.

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by vivek.kapoor83 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:18 am
negating B, weakns the conclusion. So, choose B
OA pls

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by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 5:20 am
OA is D, though my ans is also B...
The explaination given is that throwing interception is the cause and loosing game is the effect...thts why without asuming this the argument is not valid. D says Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game...can anyone brainstrom this and explain..

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by Spring2009 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:47 pm
dreamzz2010 wrote:OA is D, though my ans is also B...
The explaination given is that throwing interception is the cause and loosing game is the effect...thts why without asuming this the argument is not valid. D says Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game...can anyone brainstrom this and explain..
Oh, I think I understand the explaination.
Throwing interception should be the cause !!!
In D, if interceptions are the result (the effect) of falling behind, so falling behinds causes the team to throw interceptions => this contradicts the idea "Throwing interception should be the cause".

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Re: OG 10 CR question

by logitech » Tue Dec 30, 2008 8:59 pm
The conclusion is:

interceptions contribute greatly to team losses.

Or X leads to Y

One of the assumption types is:

An assumption that states Y does not lead to X

in other words

Loosing a game DOES NOT lead to Interception

D. Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game.
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Re: OG 10 CR question

by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:15 pm
logitech wrote:The conclusion is:

interceptions contribute greatly to team losses.

Or X leads to Y

One of the assumption types is:

An assumption that states Y does not lead to X

in other words

Loosing a game DOES NOT lead to Interception

D. Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game.
Yeah i agree..having a 2nd look at this prob. i could make out that as the conclusion is "interceptions contribute greatly to team losses" it is being assumed that "falling behind in a game does not make team increase its interceptions in the wake of a goal" and therefore D makes gud sense.

Thanks all for yr brainstroming, i think now this one is quite clear.

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Re: OG 10 CR question

by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:19 pm
logitech wrote:The conclusion is:

interceptions contribute greatly to team losses.

Or X leads to Y

One of the assumption types is:

An assumption that states Y does not lead to X

in other words

Loosing a game DOES NOT lead to Interception

D. Interceptions do not result from a team's falling behind in the game.
Hi Logitech,

can you please share your strategy in approaching CR along with other assumptions types with me as i am only able to succeed in 50% of CR problems and need a big time improvement.

Thanks in advance.

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by logitech » Tue Dec 30, 2008 10:30 pm
Dhiraj,

Do you have the CR Bible from POWERSCORE ? Try to find that book if you dont have it. Also the new 3rd Edition MGMAT CR Guide is pretty solid too.

I will share my ideas along with new questions in this forum.

Good luck,
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by dreamzz2010 » Tue Dec 30, 2008 11:00 pm
logitech wrote:Dhiraj,

Do you have the CR Bible from POWERSCORE ? Try to find that book if you dont have it. Also the new 3rd Edition MGMAT CR Guide is pretty solid too.

I will share my ideas along with new questions in this forum.

Good luck,

Thanks a ton buddy!! do you hv a soft copy of these if yes plz post a link!!

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by logitech » Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:31 pm
Soft copies are illegal my friend. I think as a prospective business school students, we need to respect the intellectual properties and copy rights.
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by dreamzz2010 » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:30 pm
logitech wrote:Soft copies are illegal my friend. I think as a prospective business school students, we need to respect the intellectual properties and copy rights.
i knw..actually place where i live these books are not available any where, n getting them shipped will take long time thats why soft copies is the only feasible way for me as i hv already taken my gmat date!! bound by circumstances!!

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by maihuna » Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:30 am
I have a point to be made here: good Q but is the origin OG book, I doubt as I dont remember such question....

coming back to Powerscore book I liked the original book... but hey its a copy of LSAT book with LSAT replaced with GMAT...I didnt like that cheating...I was just reading that book since last two days...and felt...cheated with words like GMAT tests only half of the GMAT test takers answer it correctly...shit...nonsense...how they can sell two book with name changed for two groups....if any powerscore guy is reading this post there is a suggestion...add some detaile about Bold face questions...it is the only reason I went there and wasted two days...and please please remove this shit of replacing LSAT with GMAT...and in case u have not noticed at some place u directly quoted LSAT...thats dirty...

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by ashley.com » Fri May 13, 2016 2:48 am
B looks better for me