Logical ReasoningDifficulty: Easy

PT111 S4 Q12 Explanation

Most doctors recommend that pregnant women

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TopicsParadox

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Stimulus

Most doctors recommend that pregnant women eat a nutritious diet to promote the health of their babies. However, most babies who are born to women who ate nutritious diets while pregnant problem in their first year.

What this question is testing

Paradox

Your task

Break the argument into its conclusion and evidence, then do exactly what the question stem asks with that structure.

Common trap

Answers that sound relevant to the topic but don't connect to the argument's actual reasoning.

Winning move

Predict what a right answer must do, then test each choice against the conclusion-evidence gap.

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The question
12.

Which one of the following, if true, does most to resolve the apparent discrepancy in

Answer choices

  1. Trap4% picked this

    Women who regularly eat a nutritious diet while pregnant tend to eat a nutritious

  2. Trap1% picked this

    Most of the babies born to women who did not eat nutritious diets while pregnant develop no serious

  3. Correct88% picked this

    Babies of women who did not eat nutritious diets while pregnant tend to have more medical problems in their first

    Why this is right

    Answer C is correct.

    Skill tested: Paradox · how this choice captures the argument's function is the move to repeat next time.

  4. Trap2% picked this

    Medical problems that develop in the first year of life tend to be more serious than those that

  5. Trap5% picked this

    Many of the physicians who initially recommended that pregnant women consume nutritious diets have only

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