Critical Reasoning

Are you having trouble getting the golf score you deserve? Is putting your pariah? The new Sweet Spot Putter is designed to improve your golf game overnight without intensive lessons. Even rank amateurs can dramatically increase their putting accuracy by 25%. You too can achieve a low golf score with the new Sweet Spot Putter.

Someone who accepted the reasoning in the advertisement above would be making which one of the following assumptions?

A. Without quality equipment, a golf player cannot improve his or her game.
B. The new Sweet Sport Putter will improve an amateur's game more than it will improve a professional's game.
C. The quality of a person's golf game is largely determined by the accuracy of his or her putting.
D. The new Sweet Spot Putter is superior to any other putter currently on the market.
E. Lessons are not as effective at improving the accuracy of a player's putting as is the use of quality equipment.

I think the last line of the argument should read "You too can achieve a high golf score". I dont play golf but would think a high score is directly proportional to how good a player is.

Anyways coming to the actual question.

I would go with C.

The argument takes a shift by first metioning a golf score and then moving on to putting(sweet spot putter). There must be something that connects the two.

Supported assumption being the quality of a person's golf game is largely determined by the accuracy of his or her putting.

cramya wrote:I think the last line of the argument should read "You too can achieve a high golf score". I dont play golf but would think a high score is directly proportional to how good a player is.

Anyways coming to the actual question.

I would go with C.

The argument takes a shift by first metioning a golf score and then moving on to putting(sweet spot putter). There must be something that connects the two.

Supported assumption being the quality of a person's golf game is largely determined by the accuracy of his or her putting.

Thanks for your response cramya. I too don't play golf, but know just a few rules that allow me to watch the game when Tiger Woods is playing . The lesser the score the better player you are.

Anyway, coming back to the argument, why is D not an option? Don't you think C is a much more generic answer that does not connect the conclusion & the premise of the argument?

There goes my knowledge of GOLF. :roll:

I would negate D.

The new Sweet Spot Putter is NOT superior to any other putter currently on the market.

Does this weaken my conclusion? No it can still help the users achieve a low golf score.


There must be something that realtes golf score(quality) and putting and I feel C does that.

Whats the OA; hope I am not way off here?

Regards,
CR

Nope !!! You were right on target. C is indeed the right answer.

I would go with option C