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When butterfat was considered nutritious and healthful, a law was enacted requiring that manufacturers use the term "imitation butter" to indicate butter whose butterfat content had been diminished through the addition of water. Today, it is known that the high cholesterol content of butterfat makes it harmful to human health. Since the public should be encouraged to eat foods with lower rather than higher butterfat content and since the term "imitation" with its connotations of falsity deters many people from purchasing products so designated, manufactures who wish to give reduced-butterfat butter the more appealing name of "lite butter" should be allowed to do so.
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?
(A) The manufacturers who prefer to use the word "lite" instead of "imitation" are motivated principally by the financial interest of their stock holders.
(B) The manufacturers who wish to call their product "lite butter" plan to change the composition of the product so that it contains more water than it now does.
(C) Some individuals who need to reduce their intake of cholesterol are not deterred from using the reduced-butterfat product by the negative connotations of the term "imitation."
(D) Cholesterol is only one of many factors that contribute to the types of health problems with which the consumption of excessive amounts of cholesterol is often associated.
(E) Most people deterred from eating "imitation butter" because of its name choose alternatives with a lower butterfat content than this product has
[spoiler]Imitation -->deters people => name sud be changed so that people eat low butterfat
A - out of scope (interest of manufacturers); B - out (how to achieve life); C - matches with what mentioned in argu (deters many people....so no additional info to weaken); D - out (many other factors contribute to health problem has no impact on whether imitation deters or name sud be allowed to change);
E - confirms that imitation deters people and says that there are lower butterfat products in market. My concern is this choice reinforces 'imitation deters people' and 'there are lower butterfat products available in market" - how it weakens the argument, rather it strengthens - Source LSAT; OA - E[/spoiler]
Which one of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?
(A) The manufacturers who prefer to use the word "lite" instead of "imitation" are motivated principally by the financial interest of their stock holders.
(B) The manufacturers who wish to call their product "lite butter" plan to change the composition of the product so that it contains more water than it now does.
(C) Some individuals who need to reduce their intake of cholesterol are not deterred from using the reduced-butterfat product by the negative connotations of the term "imitation."
(D) Cholesterol is only one of many factors that contribute to the types of health problems with which the consumption of excessive amounts of cholesterol is often associated.
(E) Most people deterred from eating "imitation butter" because of its name choose alternatives with a lower butterfat content than this product has
[spoiler]Imitation -->deters people => name sud be changed so that people eat low butterfat
A - out of scope (interest of manufacturers); B - out (how to achieve life); C - matches with what mentioned in argu (deters many people....so no additional info to weaken); D - out (many other factors contribute to health problem has no impact on whether imitation deters or name sud be allowed to change);
E - confirms that imitation deters people and says that there are lower butterfat products in market. My concern is this choice reinforces 'imitation deters people' and 'there are lower butterfat products available in market" - how it weakens the argument, rather it strengthens - Source LSAT; OA - E[/spoiler]
