QUESTION: 161

A company has initiated a health program for its employees that enables the worker, free of charge, to receive a monthly massage treatment, consult with a dietician and attend lectures in healthy living. These programs increase worker productivity and absenteeism for employee health care. Therefore, these programs provide as much benefit to the company as they do to the employees.

Which of the following, if true, most significantly strengthens the conclusion above?

Health programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
Studies have shown that such health programs are not effective for many people.
Regular massage treatments and dietary counseling reduce people’s risk of catching a flu or a cold and provides them with increased energy.
Dizziness sometimes results from beginning a course of massage treatments.
Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The best answer is C. The conclusion is that the programs benefit both companies and employees. For companies, reducing employees’ risk of flu or cold is likely to reduce absenteeism, and increasing employee energy is likely to increase worker productivity. For employees, the benefits are self-evident.

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QUESTION: 162

Interviewer: An alarming statistic reported in the Hobern Medical Journal is that 90 percent of the people in this country now report that they know someone who has heart disease.

Dr. Summer: But an expected level of heart disease is 5 percent, or in other words, 1 out of every 20 people. So at any given time if a person knows approximately 50 people, 1 or more will very likely suffer from heart disease.

Dr. Summer’s argument is structured to lead to which of the following conclusion?

The fact that 90 percent of the people know someone who suffers from heart disease is not an indication that heart disease is abnormally high.
The current level of heart disease is not moderate.
If at least 5 percent of the population suffered from heart disease, the result of questioning a representative group of people cannot be the percentage the interviewer cites.
It is unlikely that the people whose statements the interviewer cites are giving accurate reports.
If a person with heart disease is given as a certain percent, the actual percentage of those with heart disease is even higher.

Answer(s): A

Explanation:

The best answer is A. Dr. Summer’s argument is essentially that, even if the facts are as the interviewer presents them, they are not in and of themselves a cause for alarm. Even circumstances reassuringly normal and unremarkable imply the sort of fact the interviewer cites. Thus, that fact does not indicate that the rate of heart disease has increased above normal.

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QUESTION: 163

Interviewer: An alarming statistic reported in the Hobern Medical Journal is that 90 percent of the people in this country now report that they know someone who has heart disease.
Dr. Summer: But an expected level of heart disease is 5 percent, or in other words, 1 out of every 20 people. So at any given time if a person knows approximately 50 people, 1 or more will very likely suffer from heart disease.

Dr, Summer’s argument relies on the assumption that

Normal levels of heart disease are rarely exceeded
Heart disease is not normally concentrated in geographically isolated segments of the population.
The number of people who each know someone who suffers from heart disease is always higher than 90 percent of the population
The interviewer is not consciously distorting the statistics he presents
Knowledge that a personal acquaintance has heart disease generates more fear of getting heart disease than does knowledge of heart disease statistics.

Answer(s): B

Explanation:

The best answer is B. Dr. Summer’s argument assumes that people are generally similar in how likely they are to have among their acquaintances people who have heart disease. Since heavy concentrations of people with heart disease in geographically isolated segments of the population would produce great differences in that respect, Dr. Summer’s argument assumes few, if any, such concentrations.

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QUESTION: 164

The cost of manufacturing sports shoes in Macao is 25% less than the cost of manufacturing them in the Philippines. Even after transportation fees and tariff charges are added, it is still cheaper for a company to import sport shoes from Macao to the Philippines than to manufacture sports shoes in the Philippines.

The statements above, if true, best support which of the following assertions?

Labor costs in Macao are 25% below those in the Philippines.
Importing sports shoes from Macao to the Philippines will eliminate 25% of the manufacturing jobs in the Philippines.
The tariff on sports shoes imported from Macao to the Philippines is less than 25% of the cost of manufacturing sports shoes in the Philippines.
The fee for transporting a pair of sports shoes from Macao to the Philippines is more than 25% of cost of manufacturing the shoes in Macao.
It takes 25% less time to manufacture a pair of sports shoes in Macao than it does in the Philippines.

Answer(s): C

Explanation:

The best answer is C. If the tariff on importing sport shoes from Macao to the Philippines were as high as 25% or more of the cost of producing sports shoes in the Philippines, then, contrary to what the passage says, the cost of importing sports shoes would be equal to or more than the cost of producing sports shoes in the Philippines. Thus, the tariff cannot be that high

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