Moderate exercise lowers the risk

Answer choices

1. A

   Unrelated to Goal9% picked this

   The recent study investigated the relationship between exercise and blood

   We don't really care what the study was intending to investigate. We just need to know whether it's data is correct, because that's all that stopping us from deriving this conclusion.

   9%
2. B

   Unrelated to Goal5% picked this

   Blockage of the arteries due to blood clots can

   We don't really care what the effects of lowering your risk of blocked arteries would do. We only care about whether moderate exercise can cause a lower risk of blocked arteries. We can't prove that claim until we know that the study's data were accurate.

   5%
3. C

   Unrelated to Goal29% picked this

   Lowering blood cholesterol levels lowers the risk of blockage of

   This is an available inference from the evidence. One wouldn't call that an assumption in the first place, because it's not a new idea being assumed, it's just a logical consequence of the evidence. This evidence says that lower BC ⇢ lower hardening ⇢ lower blocked A's So, we already know what this answer choice is saying, meaning it will be functionally useless to us. We want an answer that "IF assumed", i.e. "if true / if added to what we already know", would now allow us to derive the conclusion. If an answer reiterates something we already know it can't possibly be correct. This answer fails to prove the conclusion because until we hear that we can trust the data in the recent study, we don't have any information about what moderate exercise does.

   29%
4. D

   Correct46% picked this

   The data reported in the recent study

   Why this is right

   If we know the data is correct, then we know moderate exercise lowers BC, which lowers risk of hardened arteries, which lowers risk of blocked arteries from blood clots. So now we can derive the conclusion: moderate exercise leads to lower risk of blocked arteries from blood clots.

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

   46%
5. E

   Unrelated to Goal11% picked this

   Hardening of the arteries increases the risk of blockage of the arteries due

   This is something derivable from the causal relationship described in the evidence, but we're not looking for an answer choice that we already know from the paragraph. This answer fails to prove the conclusion because until we hear that we can trust the data in the recent study, we don't have any information about what moderate exercise does.

   11%