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Good CR question !! Try it !!

by Nachiket » Sat May 18, 2013 12:03 pm
The rise in free, do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet for home repairs has led to a decrease in revenue for home service technicians and an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves. Unfortunately, not all of the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet are written as well as they should be.

Which of the following can be inferred from the argument above?

A. The number of people who are not home repair technicians and who have been injured while attempting home repairs has increased.

B. Most people who are injured while attempting home repairs have done so while following instructions found in free do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet.

C. The overall sale of online do-it-yourself home repair instructions by home service technicians has not been equal to the loss of revenue the technicians have incurred due to free offerings of this sort of material.

D. Most free do-it-yourself home repair instructions found on the Internet do not provide enough clear information regarding safety precautions.

E. As more free do-it-yourself instructions for home repairs are made available on the Internet, home service technicians will suffer more losses in revenue.

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by fulltapori » Sun May 19, 2013 10:56 pm
The argument states that there is an increase in the number of injuries to people who attempt to repair using the do it yourself material on the Internet , and it says that the instructions are not well written .... Lets find some option which connects injury to not well written information ... IMO D does this.

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by veenu08 » Mon May 20, 2013 12:02 am
IMO D, what is the OA

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by arvindsekar » Mon May 20, 2013 4:37 am
As this is an Infer question, the answer choice has to be a fact.
It can be a case that the free-do instruction can provide safety precautions and people are not following it.So the correct answer is not D
I believe the answer choice is E which can be inferred from the argument.

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by Nachiket » Mon May 20, 2013 7:04 am
Even i Picked D but OA is C.

Reason :- Nowhere it is mentioned in the argument that an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves is due to the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet. What has been mentioned is not all of the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet are written as well as they should be. Now not well written could be anything from bad grammar,bad style of writing.

Which of the following can be inferred from the argument above? are same as which of the following MUST BE TRUE question stem.

Choice C gives a MUST be true statement since it has been mentioned in the argument that The rise in free, do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet for home repairs has led to a decrease in revenue for home service technicians

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by Gaurav 2013-fall » Tue May 21, 2013 9:10 pm
just missed and picked C. I think I gotta be careful!
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by apoorva.rattan » Wed May 22, 2013 4:40 pm
Nachiket wrote:Even i Picked D but OA is C.

Reason :- Nowhere it is mentioned in the argument that an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves is due to the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet. What has been mentioned is not all of the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet are written as well as they should be. Now not well written could be anything from bad grammar,bad style of writing.

Which of the following can be inferred from the argument above? are same as which of the following MUST BE TRUE question stem.

Choice C gives a MUST be true statement since it has been mentioned in the argument that The rise in free, do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet for home repairs has led to a decrease in revenue for home service technicians

Hope that helps !! :-)
Perhaps, I am missing something here. To me, it seems that I am copying the question verbatim.
The rise in free, do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet for home repairs has led to
(- a decrease in revenue for home service technicians)
- and an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves.

Therefore, isn't it evident that "do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet" -> "increase in the number of injuries caused by people....."

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by David@VeritasPrep » Sun May 26, 2013 6:08 pm
Another tough question from Veritas...

Looks like D is the answer that many people picked. Remember that the correct answer "must be true" choice D says "D. Most free do-it-yourself home repair instructions found on the Internet do not provide enough clear information regarding safety precautions."

How do you infer that MOST free do-it-yourself instructions do not provide clear safety precautions?

Is this because there is an increase in injuries? Why blame the internet? Maybe the instructions are great but the people are not very safe anyway!

You cannot prove that D is "must be true."
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Mon May 27, 2013 5:30 am
By POE C
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by sandeepvuzzini » Tue May 28, 2013 9:09 pm
I will go with the answer choice "B". Answer choice "B" holds the logic for "must be true"

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by Blue_Skies » Mon Jun 03, 2013 5:30 pm
Nachiket wrote:The rise in free, do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet for home repairs has led to a decrease in revenue for home service technicians and an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves. Unfortunately, not all of the do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet are written as well as they should be.

Which of the following can be inferred from the argument above?

A. The number of people who are not home repair technicians and who have been injured while attempting home repairs has increased. // Stem doesn't talk about this.

B. Most people who are injured while attempting home repairs have done so while following instructions found in free do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet.// This sums up the entire stimulus. Answer.

C. The overall sale of online do-it-yourself home repair instructions by home service technicians has not been equal to the loss of revenue the technicians have incurred due to free offerings of this sort of material.// This data is never mentioned.

D. Most free do-it-yourself home repair instructions found on the Internet do not provide enough clear information regarding safety precautions.// Well it's close enough but i will eliminate it as the stem talks about the instructions not written properly. Remember this also adds the safety angle,which is not talked about in the sentence. Eliminate.

E. As more free do-it-yourself instructions for home repairs are made available on the Internet, home service technicians will suffer more losses in revenue.// Can't be deduced.

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by David@VeritasPrep » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:05 pm
Sorry guys.

B is not the correct answer either.

You say that choice B "must be true." But is that accurate?

Can you prove that "Most people who are injured while attempting home repairs have done so while following instructions found in free do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet"???

Can you not have an increase in the number of injuries without that being "most people who are injured?"

You see, B is designed to appear to sum up the whole stimulus but summing up the stimulus is not your task. Finding an answer that must be true is your task!
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by Blue_Skies » Mon Jun 03, 2013 6:09 pm
David@VeritasPrep wrote:Sorry guys.

B is not the correct answer either.

You say that choice B "must be true." But is that accurate?

Can you prove that "Most people who are injured while attempting home repairs have done so while following instructions found in free do-it-yourself instructions on the Internet"???

Can you not have an increase in the number of injuries without that being "most people who are injured?"

You see, B is designed to appear to sum up the whole stimulus but summing up the stimulus is not your task. Finding an answer that must be true is your task!
In that case A will be my pick. What say ? Rest all seem out of scope.

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by sandeepvuzzini » Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:20 am
Hi David,

That makes sense, I overlooked the statement "A", thought it was mentioned as "The number of people who are home repair technicians"...Thank you for the explanation :)

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by David@VeritasPrep » Tue Jun 04, 2013 11:42 am
I am sorry to say it, but A is not the answer either!! The answer is C.

Here is why A is not "must be true."

A says,
The number of people who are not home repair technicians and who have been injured while attempting home repairs has increased
Now you know from the stimulus that there was "an increase in the number of injuries caused by people who have attempted home repairs themselves." Does this guarantee that the increased injuries is caused by an increased number of people getting injured? Maybe some people are getting injured more often.

Choice C is correct because we know that there has been "a decrease in revenue for home service technicians" this means they have less money so C has to be true... "C. The overall sale of online do-it-yourself home repair instructions by home service technicians has not been equal to the loss of revenue the technicians have incurred due to free offerings of this sort of material." That is why they have lost revenue.

OA is C.
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