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It is true of both men and women that those who marry as [#permalink]
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It is true of both men and women that those who marry as young adults live longer than those who never marry. This does not show that marriage causes people to live longer, since, as compared with other people of the same age, young adults who are about to get married have fewer of the unhealthy habits that can cause a person to have a shorter life, most notably smoking and immoderate drinking of alcohol. Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above? A. Marriage tends to cause people to engage less regularly in sports that involve risk of bodily harm. B. A married person who has an unhealthy habit is more likely to give up that habit than a person with the same habit who is unmarried. C. A person who smokes is much more likely than a nonsmoker to marry a person who smokes at the time of marriage, and the same is true for people who drink alcohol immoderately. D. Among people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life. E. Among people who as young adults neither drink alcohol immoderately nor smoke, those who never marry live as long as those who marry.
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Very subtle. Can you paste the screen shot here? I would have picked E in the real exam. 
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i picked E too.... 
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I thought it was E. Quote: It is true of both men and women that those who marry as young adults live longer
than those who never marry. This does not show that marriage causes people to live
longer, since, as compared with other people of the same age, young adults who are
about to get married have fewer of the unhealthy habits that can cause a person to
have a shorter life, most notably smoking and immoderate drinking of alcohol.
Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above? there is nothing about giving unhealthy habits.
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I pick D
Argument
Young adults who marry live longer > those who never marry
Young adults who about to marry have fewer un healthy habits
==> CONCLU: Marriage does not cause Live Longer
What it trys to say is that because you are 18, you already have fewer unhealthy habits than say when you 25 (smoke and drink), so you already in good shape to live longer. It is not because of marriage that cause you to live longer. So what would STRENGTHEN this? The very fact that D say: that after you marry when you are 18, you do not pick up the bad habit later in life. So you are good at 18, you married and you are good forever.
D is correct
E - Talk about the Good guys (the 18 years old who don't have bad habit), then compare between themselves, this is useless information, so they are good already, then may be even if they don't marry, they still can be good. -> INCORRECT
D rules
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E is the answer. D Among people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life. Only talks about the married people and not talking or comparing with the unmarried once.
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I picked D as well.
E says that married people live just as long as non-married people. I didn't understand how that strengthens the argument, so I had ruled it out.
I would trust GMATPrep more than the other thread.
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KissGMAT wrote: E is the answer.
D Among people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an
unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life.
Only talks about the married people and not talking or comparing with the unmarried once. D is the answer. Why would I need to compare with the unmarried one? In the premise, I prove that when you are young, you are healthy. In the answer, I prove that after you are married when you are young, you don't pick up any bad habit. => You are healthy for the rest of your life. I just strengthen my premise by ruling out the possibility that I might pick up bad habit after married.
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question is how do we know that people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life ???D assumes long way away. It is ambiguous. E my pick
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tryingharder wrote: question is how do we know that people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life ???D assumes long way away. It is ambiguous.
E my pick "Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?" D doesn't assume, D is the fact!
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gautrang wrote: tryingharder wrote: question is how do we know that people who marry as young adults, most of those who give up an unhealthy habit after marriage do not resume the habit later in life ???D assumes long way away. It is ambiguous.
E my pick "Which of the following, if true, most strengthens the argument above?" D doesn't assume, D is the fact! how do you know that they do not resume the habit later in life ?is it explicitly in the argument 
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seekmba wrote: i picked E too.... u have picked the right one budy 
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tryingharder wrote: It is Explicitly said in D, the answer, which we must take it as TRUE (the question stem: if true). How do I know? Because D said so, It is that simple, D said they do not resume the habit later in life.
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I went for D as well!
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Should we involve the gmat instructors Tommy or Sarai - bcos members of the jury are divided in their opinions LOL. Let me ask for help!
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The correct answer is E. This is an OG12 question. Q 119
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Hey All, Just to make clear, answer choice D is incorrect because it doesn't help the conclusion at all. All it says it that married people who give up bad habits don't pick them up again. That strengthens the part of the argument that shows that marriage DOES have something to do with making you live longer, which actually WEAKENS our argument (that marriage doesn't actually have a positive effect on its own). We need to discuss/compare married to unmarried here. -t
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temp33 wrote: The correct answer is E. This is an OG12 question. Q 119 
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