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by prachi18oct » Tue Jun 16, 2015 12:25 pm
Lack of exercise, poor diet, and thyroid problems invariably lead to obesity. Executives at company X all have abnormally active thyroids. A majority of the executives at company X skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week. Company X does not have an on-site gym as do many of company X's competitors.

Which of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

A)Most executives at company X who do not exercise off-site are obese.
B)No executive at company X who eats healthy meals is obese.
C)Employees at company X's competitors suffer less from obesity and its related health problems.
D)Most executives at company X are obese because of their poor diets.
E)Company X spends more on healthcare for executives than for non-executives.
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by src_saurav » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:37 am
My ANSWER is D.What is the correct answer?
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by theCEO » Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:01 pm
src_saurav wrote:My ANSWER is D.What is the correct answer?
This seems wrong.

D)Most executives at company X are obese because of their poor diets.

From passage: A majority of the executives at company X skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week

What if they skip breakfast, eat fast food 6 times out of for example 42 meals per week but they excercise alot. They most likely will not get obese with only these 2 factors.

What if they have a fast metabolism and other reason why they cant put on weight?

What if they only eat 6 meals per week?

See where this is going!
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by theCEO » Thu Jun 18, 2015 5:14 pm
Lack of exercise, poor diet, and thyroid problems invariably lead to obesity. Executives at company X all have abnormally active thyroids. A majority of the executives at company X skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week. Company X does not have an on-site gym as do many of company X's competitors.

Which of the following is most strongly supported by the information above?

A)Most executives at company X who do not exercise off-site are obese.
Correct. Company X does not have an on-site gym.
Therefore executives either exercise offsite or they dont excercise at all.
Since most executives don't exercise offsite and company x has not gym, most eexcutives will get obsese.


B)No executive at company X who eats healthy meals is obese. Wrong. Didn'tmention this this in the passage.
C)Employees at company X's competitors suffer less from obesity and its related health problems.Wrong. Didn'tmention any info. on competitors in the passage.
D)Most executives at company X are obese because of their poor diets. Wrong. See reasoning in previos post
E)Company X spends more on healthcare for executives than for non-executives.Wrong. Didn'tmention any info. on healthcare in the passage.
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:01 pm
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:01 pm
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:02 pm
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:02 pm
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:02 pm
I think it's C
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by Anh Duong » Thu Jun 18, 2015 8:16 pm
sorry about the repetition. There is something wrong with my laptop....

However for A, what if all of the executive who do not exercise out side the company are the minority of people who actually eat healthy?

for C I know it doesnt sound right either because the fact that they have a gym doesnt mean that there executives are doing exercises...
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by theCEO » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:37 pm
Anh Duong wrote:sorry about the repetition. There is something wrong with my laptop....

However for A, what if all of the executive who do not exercise out side the company are the minority of people who actually eat healthy?

for C I know it doesnt sound right either because the fact that they have a gym doesnt mean that there executives are doing exercises...
C)Employees at company X's competitors suffer less from obesity and its related health problems
C cannot be right because we do not have any information about the competitor's employees health ptoblems.
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by Ian Stewart » Thu Jun 18, 2015 11:37 pm
Where is this question from? The answer has to be A, because no other answer is supported at all, but it's a very strange question, that requires a lot of unfounded assumptions. We know the company's executives have "abnormally active thyroids", skip breakfast and eat fast food, and do not have access to an on-site gym. So I guess we're supposed to assume that people with "abnormally active thyroids" have "thyroid problems", that people who "skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week" have a "poor diet", and that people cannot exercise on-site without using a gym. If you assume all of those things, the first sentence of the stem tells us the executives will 'invariably' become obese without exercising off-site.
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by pandeyg21 » Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:33 am
Ian Stewart wrote:Where is this question from? The answer has to be A, because no other answer is supported at all, but it's a very strange question, that requires a lot of unfounded assumptions. We know the company's executives have "abnormally active thyroids", skip breakfast and eat fast food, and do not have access to an on-site gym. So I guess we're supposed to assume that people with "abnormally active thyroids" have "thyroid problems", that people who "skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week" have a "poor diet", and that people cannot exercise on-site without using a gym. If you assume all of those things, the first sentence of the stem tells us the executives will 'invariably' become obese without exercising off-site.
The conclusion of this argument points exercise, poor diet and thyroid as a cause of obesity. However answer A resolve only one point that is exercise. How do you think this could be the answer? Am I missing something here?

As per my thoughts, option B is correct as it adds an additional reason and negates it, leaving us with all 3 reasons mentioned in the argument. What you think?

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by Ian Stewart » Fri Jun 19, 2015 11:05 pm
pandeyg21 wrote:
The conclusion of this argument points exercise, poor diet and thyroid as a cause of obesity. However answer A resolve only one point that is exercise. How do you think this could be the answer? Am I missing something here?
Answer A only discusses one point, but the question stem already addresses the other two points.

The stem essentially says " X and Y are true, and if X, Y and Z are true, then Q is true." From that, you only need to know if Z is true to determine that Q will be true. Here X, Y and Z stand for 'poor diet', 'thyroid issues' and 'no exercise', respectively, and Q stands for 'obesity'.

In any case, it's not a well-written question, and it's not a GMAT-like question either, so I wouldn't spend any time on it - there are more useful things to review.
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by prachi18oct » Sat Jun 20, 2015 9:08 am
Ian Stewart wrote:Where is this question from? The answer has to be A, because no other answer is supported at all, but it's a very strange question, that requires a lot of unfounded assumptions. We know the company's executives have "abnormally active thyroids", skip breakfast and eat fast food, and do not have access to an on-site gym. So I guess we're supposed to assume that people with "abnormally active thyroids" have "thyroid problems", that people who "skip breakfast and eat fast food at least six meals per week" have a "poor diet", and that people cannot exercise on-site without using a gym. If you assume all of those things, the first sentence of the stem tells us the executives will 'invariably' become obese without exercising off-site.
This from veritas prep question bank.
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