Critical Reasoning (CR) | Re: Columnist: People should avoid using a certain artificial fat that has

Understanding the argument - The columnist concludes that "People should avoid using certain artificial fat." Why? Because it absorbs certain essential vitamins, thereby preventing them from being used by the body.

In the Evaluate question, we are checking the validity of the argument. How do we do that - by asking the question along the lines of assumption? Yes.

Option Elimination -

(A) Whether increasing one's intake of the vitamins can compensate for the effects of the artificial fat - take it to two extremes to check.
Yes, increasing one's intake of vitamins can compensate for the effects of artificial fat - which weakens the conclusion.
No, increasing one's intake of vitamins can compensate for the effects of artificial fat - strengthens the conclusion.

(B) Whether the vitamins that the artificial fat absorbs are present in foods that contain the fat - What if they do or don't do? Does it help you follow the advice of the columnist? No. Wrong. Distortion.

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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 17 Jul 2007, 18:14 • Replies 38 • Views 61319

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