Group 1 - High BP people cutting salt intake resulted in lower BP. Group 2 - people with high salt intake that have low BP. Prephrase Group 2 offset their salt intake with other counterbalancing foods A. Only discusses group 1. We need to link/relate the 2 to resolve out discrepancy B. Sounds promis...

Premise: Prob of avoid heart disease increases by avoiding fat Prob of eating fat decreases by avoiding dairy Concl: Prob of main good health is increased by avoiding dairy Prephrase: Term shift that assumes avoiding heart disease implies good health A. Is saying there may be negative consequences o...

Poll results said students wanted a president who has experience as that role. The winner of the pole with names was someone without that experience. Prephase - people did not know the winner of the pole lacked the experience/ biased due to friendship or knowing the individual A. We don't need all o...

It has not changed that journalists use quotes to report unsupported claims It has changed that they are now less likely to challenge those claims Prephase: There have been higher incidents of retaliation for challenging claims A. They don't want to speak out because they don't want to lose $. makes...

Urban highways more lanes -> more accidents. Prephase - more lanes, more drivers, more accidents A. Matches prephase B. Okay higher population but that doesn't explain why there are more accidents (unless these people are on the roads which is what A says) C. More lanes, less accidents. Opposite ...

Study A - 70% patterned stems Study B - 40% patterned Same area. Prephrase - different definition of patterned? Were the studies conducted in the same season? A. matches my prephrase B. Out of scope - we only care of this particular species right now C. the number of plants is irrelevant since both ...

Country X has a lot less cases of P than any other country, however higher mortality in P than any other country. Prephase: Deadliest strain of P occurs in country x A. Half of what I stated in the prephase but we need to know that X has the more severe forms B. Hmm so stats are collected based on c...

Plots have been repeated yet people still like seeing them. Possible answers: people forget movies after they watch them, they don't go for unique story lines etc A. Okay I think this is saying there is incentive to keep the story lines "standard" bc that means more $$$ but this feels some...

Driving is safer without passengers for short trips but with passengers for long trips. Prephrase: It's more likely you have a passenger for a short trip (is grocery store with roommate) than someone who is willing to go with you all the way to the next state. In this cases there are more short trip...

Despite the high financial risks of these new tech people are still willing to invest, why? Prephase: The possible reward outweighs the financial risk/ getting your money back. I would pay a million bucks to make my mom live longer. A. This is saying if there is a return it will be 100 fold (arbitra...

Why doesn't PJMLGH work?

I feel like I shouldn't be confused by this question but I am. I understand part of why A is correct. Long cloudy season therefore no sun to do it the ideal way but why is is it relevant that this is before the popcorn fields would begin to dry? Also if B said something like "Drying popcorn on ...

We are trying to explain why despite automated flight navigation's high reliability, there can still be human error when functioning correctly. My prephase is there is still some human element required to work the automated system A. Out of scope - argument is only talking about even when functionin...

Got this incorrect on my first attempt so here's my attempt at a detailed breakdown. My initial mental prephrase tells me maybe satisfaction is relative/ based on how residents feel they're doing in comparison to neighboring/ other areas they see/ interact with. A. aspects compared to residents in a...

If D had said "The absence of viruses can facilitate the flourishing of bacteria that damage plankton (instead of other organisms). Notice I also removed sometimes to make the answer a bit stronger. Would it overtake C as the best answer?

I struggled with this question as I thought the answer could have been anything but C. I almost picked A since I just read the last bit of passage where it said "...if we consider both what mirrors do and what happens when we look into mirrors" but I thought the question was more a main po...

What is B trying to say if we put it in concrete terms? Here is my stab. The overall conclusion in conditional terms is if purchased equip then it's not a waste of money. The sufficient condition is purchasing equipment and the necessary is not a waste of money. Subbing this into b - takes purchasin...

Can someone speak to why we're allowed to make the leap that the workers are innocent?

Can someone substitute concrete into the abstract answer choices for A & B? I think I am getting the pain/ buldging slipped disks mixed up. ie I thought A was saying A factor that (pain) that need not be present in order for a certain effect (discs) to arise may nonetheless be sufficient to prod...

I was attracted to D because I thought it addressed another possible form of life. In the argument it states "life as we know it" and D says "unfamiliar forms of life." Is this still the incorrect answer because B is the better answer? Or am I mis-interpreting something?