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?
Answer(s): C
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.
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?
Answer(s): A
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.
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
Answer(s): B
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.
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?
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
Opponents of laws that require motorcycle riders to wear helmets argue that in a free society people have the right to take risks as long as the people do not harm others as a result of taking the risks. As a result, they conclude that it should be each person’s decision whether or not to wear a helmet.Which of the following, if true, seriously weakens the conclusion drawn above?
The principle that people are entitled to risk injury provided they do not thereby harm others fails to justify the individual’s right to decide not to wear a helmet if it can be shown that it does harm others by raising insurance rates.
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