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Yoga can help

by metallicafan » Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:00 pm
Yoga can help strength muscles and increase flexibility. Because muscle strength is more important to most people, yoga teachers should choose to focus primarily on exercises that strengthen muscles.

Which of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A) Some yoga exercises are better for beginning students, while others are more appropriate for advanced partitioners.

B) Different teachers are able to interpret yoga poses in different ways.

C) Even if a practice has two benefits, teachers should focus on the one that the majority of people find important

D) If an exercise is designed primarily to strengthen muscles, that exercise will not also increase flexibilty.

E) Yoga teachers are not concerned with the desire of their students.

Why not B? The argument talks about exerciseS,so the author assumes that the teacher are able to perform different poses.
In relation to C. The argument just mentions that the teacher should focus on excersises that strengthen muscles. Just that, we cannot assume that he or she should focus on one of the benefits if an exercise has both. We cannot assume that it is possible to focus on one benefit if the exercise has both.

I believe this question is not good. What do you think?

OA: _C_
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by killer1387 » Sat Mar 31, 2012 8:25 pm
B is irrelevant, C goes the best one.

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by GmatKiss » Sun Apr 01, 2012 6:26 am
C and D are the contenders. IMO: C

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:46 am
B is saying that you can use a certain pose for strength or for flexibility, whereas the stimulus gave me the impression that poses primarily focus on one or the other. Thus, I think we can say B is not required.

A--beginner vs advanced wasn't discussed
C--fits. If it's not true that teachers should focus on what their students think is important, then we can't conclude that they should focus on strengthening exercise. Thus, it is required to be true for the argument to make sense.
D--irrelevant to what the teachers should focus on
E--weakens the argument
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by agarwalmanoj2000 » Sun Apr 01, 2012 7:18 pm
Conclusion: Yoga teachers should choose to focus primarily on exercises that strengthen muscles.
Goal: Find assumption.

On negating the correct answer choice conclusion should fall apart.

Why not B?
Negate B: Different teachers are NOT able to interpret yoga poses in different ways.
=>It does not impact the conclusion i.e. This option does not say anything in relation to whether Yoga teachers should choose to focus on exercises that strengthen muscles, so option B is out.

Why C?
Negate C: Even if a practice(yoga) has two benefits, teachers should NOT focus on the one that the majority of people find important.
=> Conclusion falls apart i.e. If teachers should NOT focus on the one that the majority of people find important, then Yoga teachers will not choose to focus primarily on exercises that strengthen muscles, so C is the right answer.

HTH.