A certain baseball team has just completed its season

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A certain baseball team has just completed its season. In stadiums that seat 20,000 or fewer people, the team averaged 1 home run per game; in stadiums that seat between 20,000 and 40,000 people, the team averaged 2 home runs per game; and, in stadiums that seat 40,000 or more people, the team averaged 3 home runs per game. Obviously, the excitement of playing in front of large crowds motivated the team to hit more home runs.

Assuming that all stadiums during the season were filled to capacity, which of the following, if true, most undermines the argument above?
The team's leading home run hitter hit more home runs in mid-sized stadiums than in large stadiums.
The fans in the larger stadiums often cheered against the team.
The team averaged only 2 home runs per game when playing in the league’s largest stadium.
In order to create seating for the additional fans, the outfield walls in the larger stadiums were constructed closer to home base.
The team’s announcer cited crowd noise as a major motivator for the team.
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by bmlaud » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:44 am
Is it C??

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by maihuna » Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:47 am
very tempting but ...

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by bmlaud » Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:04 am
Cause: More people.....Effect: More home runs
To weaken the argument-----> look for an alternate cause that gives the effect.

Option E does that, I hope I am correct this time.

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by Bidisha800 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 12:02 pm
Easy (D).

The actual boundary was reduced to accommodate more people. hitting home runs was much easier since the effective distnce was reduced.
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by manoj0609 » Sat Jan 17, 2009 1:20 pm
bmlaud wrote:Cause: More people.....Effect: More home runs
To weaken the argument-----> look for an alternate cause that gives the effect.

Option E does that, I hope I am correct this time.
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Option B should be the correct answer ,coz it negates that crowd cheers is agaist the team and thus crowd is not the reason .

And on option E supports the argument rather than weakining it
by saying noise(crowd)is the reason for motivation

Option C ,Largest stadium not necessarliy means large crowd ,so it cant be true .

What is OA?

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by maihuna » Sun Jan 18, 2009 6:28 am
oa-D, Bidesha rocks!! :P

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by vscid » Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:07 am
Bidisha800 wrote:Easy (D).

The actual boundary was reduced to accommodate more people. hitting home runs was much easier since the effective distnce was reduced.
oh yeah!
D says is the one that undermines the conclusion the most.
D says that it is not the large crowd that was responsible for more home runs but something else.
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by mjjking » Sun Jan 18, 2009 12:11 pm
IMO D, because it's cause-effect. We have to disprove the argument, and D helps us with that!
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by jeevan.Gk » Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:17 am
D is a cake walk :lol:

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by samanthaJ79 » Fri May 13, 2016 3:39 am
I think it's D