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Fitness program to employees

by karthikpandian19 » Sun Jan 08, 2012 2:36 am
Personnel officer: The exorbitant cost of our health insurance benefits reflects the high dollar amount of medical expenses incurred by our employees.Employees who are out of shape, as a group,have higher doctor bills and longer hospital stays than do their colleagues who are fit. Therefore, since we must reduce our health insurance costs, we should offer a rigorous fitness program of jogging and weight-lifting to all employees,and require employees who are out of shape to participate.

Which of the following, if true,provides the most support for the personnel officer's proposal?

a.The medical expenses incurred by fit people who participate in the program of jogging and weight lifting are less than those incurred by fit people who do not participate in such a program.

b.More otherwise fit people are injured by participating in rigorous jogging and weight-lifting program than are injured by participating in moderate jogging and weight-lifting programs.

c.The likelihood of incurring medical expenses is slightly greater for people who participate in fitness programs offered by their employers than it is for people who participate in programs offered commercially.

d.Moderate fitness programs increase the average person's fitness to the same extent that rigorous fitness programs do.

e.More health problems and injuries are the result of mandatory participation in a fitness program than are the result of voluntary participation.

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by santhoshsram » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:28 am
IMO A. Not a 100% sure though.
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by karthikpandian19 » Tue Jan 10, 2012 12:34 am
OA is A

Can someone provide explanation for this one?

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by santhoshsram » Tue Jan 10, 2012 11:24 am
P1: High cost of insurance reflects huge medical expenses.
P2: Employees out of shape have higher doctor bills and longer hospital stays.

Conclusion: To reduce insurance costs, offer rigorous fitness programs (RFP) to all employees and make it mandatory for out of shape employees (I interpreted 'require' as 'mandatory'. I hope I'm right here).

Assumption: The RFP will help out of shape employees become healthy/fit -> reduce their medical bills -> consequently reducing insurance cost.

(A) Fit people participating in RFP spend less on medical bills than fit people who do not participate. => So we have reason to believe participation in RFP helps reduce medical bills.

(B) Fit people are injured in RFP. Weakens. If people are injured it will increase their medical bills and consequently insurance cost. ELIMINATE

(C) Compares fitness programs offered by employer with those offered commercially. We are not worried about such comparisons. Even if it were to matter, it only WEAKENS the argument by saying people participating in employer sponsored FP spend slightly more. ELIMINATE.

(D) Again we do not care about difference between Moderate FP and RFP. If any this WEAKENS the proposal for RFP. ELIMINATE.

(E) Mandatory FP result in injuries. WEAKENS. ELIMINATE.

A survives.
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by ronnie1985 » Tue Jan 10, 2012 10:43 pm
IMO (A)
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by sk8legend408 » Wed Jan 11, 2012 3:28 pm
This was a tough one...I got A as well but I wasn't 100% sure either.

But if you go through each answer choice every single one can be eliminated except A as Santhosh alluded to.

Good luck.

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by melon » Thu Jan 12, 2012 10:46 pm
This is How I concluded.
Personnel officer: The exorbitant cost of our health insurance benefits reflects the high dollar amount of medical expenses incurred by our employees.Employees who are out of shape, as a group,have higher doctor bills and longer hospital stays than do their colleagues who are fit. Therefore, since we must reduce our health insurance costs, we should offer a rigorous fitness program of jogging and weight-lifting to all employees,and require employees who are out of shape to participate.

Which of the following, if true,provides the most support for the personnel officer's proposal?

a.The medical expenses incurred by fit people who participate in the program of jogging and weight lifting are less than those incurred by fit people who do not participate in such a program.----This some what supports the argument , but better answers could lay ahead.

b.More otherwise fit people are injured by participating in rigorous jogging and weight-lifting program than are injured by participating in moderate jogging and weight-lifting programs.------It weakens the argument

c.The likelihood of incurring medical expenses is slightly greater for people who participate in fitness programs offered by their employers than it is for people who participate in programs offered commercially.----------It weakens the argument

d.Moderate fitness programs increase the average person's fitness to the same extent that rigorous fitness programs do.--------The author talk about rigorous exercise but more over we are not asked to compare the benefits of moderate and rigorous exercies

e.More health problems and injuries are the result of mandatory participation in a fitness program than are the result of voluntary participation.-----It weakens the argument