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 Post subject: CR - Employee Assistance Program. [#permalink]
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Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

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

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.
(C) Regular exercise reduces people’s risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.
(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly.
(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.

I got A and C left among other choices. But C is quite normal choice, at least in my opinion. NOrmally right but I couldn't find any remark on "regular exercise" from the question statement. Rather, in A, if the program is the most popular ones for employees, then, the conclusion ("therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee") should be strengthened. How do you guys think???


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Richardson wrote:
Not clear...

Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

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

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.
(C) Regular exercise reduces people’s risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.
(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly.
(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.


IMO C)


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Richardson wrote:
Not clear...

Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

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

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.
(C) Regular exercise reduces people’s risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.
(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly.
(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered.


"B" and "D" weaken the arconclusion
"A" and "E" does not tell anything about the conclusion
"C" is the answer IMO

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But how does C benefits the company as the conclusion says.

Is the OA A?


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Richardson wrote:
Not clear...

Many companies now have employee assistance programs that enable employees, free of charge, to improve their physical fitness, reduce stress, and learn ways to stop smoking. These programs increase worker productivity, reduce absenteeism, and lessen insurance costs for employee health care. Therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee.

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

(A) Physical fitness programs are often the most popular services offered to employees.
(B) Studies have shown that training in stress management is not effective for many people.-> WEAKENS
(C) Regular exercise reduces people’s risk of heart disease and provides them with increased energy.
(D) Physical injuries sometimes result from entering a strenuous physical fitness program too quickly. -> OOS
(E) Employee assistance programs require companies to hire people to supervise the various programs offered. ->WEAKENS

I got A and C left among other choices. But C is quite normal choice, at least in my opinion. NOrmally right but I couldn't find any remark on "regular exercise" from the question statement. Rather, in A, if the program is the most popular ones for employees, then, the conclusion ("therefore, these programs benefit the company as well as the employee") should be strengthened. How do you guys think???


IMO C
Strengthen means proicide support to premise or assumption to reach the concl :
A->physical fitness service being often offered does not strengthen that they are helpful to employee and employer !!!No comments about increased productivity and reduced absenteesm etc!!Just saying this service is a big hit or often used does not explain why its good Eliminate

C is just better in the given scenario !!!it just strengthens the premise that physical health of emloyees is improved by regular exercise !!!But yes no where in the argument regular exercise is mentioned !!But among given FIVE optins this is the best

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C

This choice provides two advantages:
1. Improves employees health and thereby provides increased energy to perform job and other activity

2. Also, helps the companies to reduce the insurance costs

I hope this helps!


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