Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without presoaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
A. Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish.
B. There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking.
C. A dish's appearance is as important as its taste.
D. None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be presoaked.
E. The plumper the bean, the better it tastes.
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Hi AdamMac,
You can search for a new phrase in the conclusion that didn't appear before the conclusion statement in the argument. The term "bean dish's quality" is new in the argument. So there is a gap between plumper beans and dish quality that answer choice A fill this gap.
You can search for a new phrase in the conclusion that didn't appear before the conclusion statement in the argument. The term "bean dish's quality" is new in the argument. So there is a gap between plumper beans and dish quality that answer choice A fill this gap.
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As talaangoshtari points out, this CR exhibits a LANGUAGE SHIFT.AdamMac wrote:Soaking dried beans overnight before cooking them reduces cooking time. However, cooking without presoaking yields plumper beans. Therefore, when a bean dish's quality is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked.
Which one of the following is an assumption required by the argument?
A. Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish.
B. There are no dishes whose quality improves with faster cooking.
C. A dish's appearance is as important as its taste.
D. None of the other ingredients in the dish need to be presoaked.
E. The plumper the bean, the better it tastes.
The premise is about PLUMPER BEANS:
Although soaking dried beans...reduces cooking time...cooking without presoaking yields PLUMPER BEANS.
The conclusion is about QUALITY:
When a bean dish's QUALITY Is more important than the need to cook that dish quickly, beans should not be presoaked.
The assumption -- that PLUMPER BEANS are linked to QUALITY -- is expressed by A:
Plumper beans enhance the quality of a dish.
The correct answer is A.
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