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Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy. Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time. Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once. Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it? A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best. B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to. C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems. D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time. E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem.
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07 Jan 2013, 05:04
lunar255 wrote: Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy.
Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time.
Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.
Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?
A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.
B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.
C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.
D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.
E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem. A. Perhaps, one of them is right. Perhaps, both of them are wrong. This was not validated by the stimulus. B. this is extreme. Them not knowing as much is not validated in the stimulus. C. I don't feel strongly about this but after eliminating a,b,d and e. this became my response. D. Cavities not mentioned in the stimulus. The dentist may have other reasons. E. extreme like B... Answer: C
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07 Jan 2013, 05:10
lunar255 wrote: Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy.
Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time.
Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.
Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?
A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.
B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.
C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.
D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.
E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem. I like A better than C. Rest all can be eliminated. Different health problems or same health problems in C cant be confirmed. A avoids this debate by pointing things to further research. Also A just points out the disagreement via The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right A for me.
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07 Jan 2013, 07:21
BangOn wrote: lunar255 wrote: Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy.
Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time.
Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.
Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?
A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.
B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.
C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.
D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.
E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem. I like A better than C. Rest all can be eliminated. Different health problems or same health problems in C cant be confirmed. A avoids this debate by pointing things to further research. Also A just points out the disagreement via The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right A for me. Hmm. But, how about the inference it made about further research... Perhaps, it doesn't have to go this far to know what is the best advice. It's not mentioned in the stimulus.
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07 Jan 2013, 07:24
mbaiseasy wrote: BangOn wrote: lunar255 wrote: Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy.
Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time.
Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.
Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?
A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.
B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.
C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.
D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.
E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem. I like A better than C. Rest all can be eliminated. Different health problems or same health problems in C cant be confirmed. A avoids this debate by pointing things to further research. Also A just points out the disagreement via The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right A for me. Hmm. But, how about the inference it made about further research... Perhaps, it doesn't have to go this far to know what is the best advice. It's not mentioned in the stimulus. I agree about your point in C. Difficult to consider one and leave another.
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07 Jan 2013, 09:37
lunar255 wrote: Nutritionists and dentists offer contradictory advice to parents with regard to the eating of Halloween candy.
Nutritionists advise parents to make their children eat a small amount of candy each day over a long period of time.
Dentists advise parents to let their children eat all the candy at once.
Assuming that the above passage is accurate, which of the following statements can be inferred from it?
A. The dentists and the nutritionists cannot both be right; only further research will determine which advice is best.
B. Since experts disagree, it is obvious that they do not know as much as they claim to.
C. Dentists and nutritionists disagree because they are concerned about completely different health problems.
D. Eating all the candy at once causes more cavities than eating the same amount of candy over a longer period of time.
E. The dentists are more scientific in their approach to the problem. Hi, This question uses too much common knowledge (that nutritionists and dentists are concerned about different problems) in an inference problem. This does not look like a typical GMAT problem. Also, option A cannot be the answer since neither nutritionists nor dentists are claiming their way to be the best way; they are just advising. If they were saying that the best way to eat candy...., then option A could be worth considering. But this is not the case. For example: If someone advises you to solve all OG questions, you cannot say that he is right or wrong. Only when the other person says that solving all OG questions is the only way to score 700 on GMAT, then you can label him right or wrong. Thanks, Chiranjeev
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