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Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration to overseas destinations seriously depleted last year's annual budget. I propose a reduction in the number of such administrative journeys in order to complete the upcoming year with a more significant profit than that of last year.

Foreign minister: Such visits often lead to financial partnerships that can form the basis for economic growth through cooperation.

The foreign minister responds to the advisor's proposal by

A. indicating that the factual information chosen by the adviser to support the proposal is irrelevant to the problem being contemplated

B. challenging the position taken by the adviser by highlighting a flaw in the logical reasoning that was used to connect the visits to the low profits

C. refraining from objecting to the facts used to support the proposal while presenting a positive factor that can outweigh the influence of those facts

D. offering a viewpoint that attempts to undermine the factual information put forward in order to support that proposal

E. suggesting an alternative strategy, and thereby weakening that put forward by the adviser as a solution to a certain problem

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Re: Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2024, 05:15
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IMO it's (C)

A. indicating that the factual information chosen by the adviser to support the proposal is irrelevant to the problem being contemplated

Wrong, no where FM says the info of adviser is irrelevant

B. challenging the position taken by the adviser by highlighting a flaw in the logical reasoning that was used to connect the visits to the low profits

FM was not focus on highlighting a flaw in logic of adviser instead he says some other factor may overcompensate it.

C. refraining from objecting to the facts used to support the proposal while presenting a positive factor that can outweigh the influence of those facts

True

D. offering a viewpoint that attempts to undermine the factual information put forward in order to support that proposal

Not undermining fact presented by adviser

E. suggesting an alternative strategy, and thereby weakening that put forward by the adviser as a solution to a certain problem

FM doesn't present another startegy instead they are debating on same startegy
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Re: Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2024, 08:01
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Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration to overseas destinations seriously depleted last year's annual budget. I propose a reduction in the number of such administrative journeys in order to complete the upcoming year with a more significant profit than that of last year.

Foreign minister: Such visits often lead to financial partnerships that can form the basis for economic growth through cooperation.

The foreign minister responds to the advisor's proposal by

A. indicating that the factual information chosen by the adviser to support the proposal is irrelevant to the problem being contemplated

B. challenging the position taken by the adviser by highlighting a flaw in the logical reasoning that was used to connect the visits to the low profits

C. refraining from objecting to the facts used to support the proposal while presenting a positive factor that can outweigh the influence of those facts

D. offering a viewpoint that attempts to undermine the factual information put forward in order to support that proposal

E. suggesting an alternative strategy, and thereby weakening that put forward by the adviser as a solution to a certain problem


I think it is C.

A: The problem is that the budged was depleted last year, but the advisors proposal is not solving this problem. I believe the thing he is trying to achieve is the profit increase. Hence, described problem is just a background information. Not correct.

B: Minister's response doesn't contain any challenging phrases. Not correct.

C: Best option here. The adviser's logic is totally correct (to increase profit one needs to cut the expenses), and there is nothing minister can do about that, so he is refraining from discussing opponent position and offering another advantage to keep the number of administrative journeys. Correct.

D: The minister's viewpoint doesn't undermine anything in adviser's logic. Not correct.

E: I don't see any mark of suggesting the strategy. Minister just added several facts. Not correct.
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Re: Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2024, 12:10
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Correct Option should be C

In the Ministers Statement there is clearly no
1. point of proving any irrelevance of the Advisor's proposal
2. point of challenging the position of the advisor. In fact this is an useless option and very easy to eliminate.
3. attempts to undermine the facts put forward by the Advisor. The minister has never said against the facts put forward.
4. strategy put forward by the Finance Minister himself to solve whatever problem is being discussed.

He has not shown any objection to the facts used to support the proposal of the Advisor, instead what he has done is, he
has presented some positive factor ( as he says Such visits often lead to financial partnerships that can form the basis for
economic growth through cooperation.) which can outweigh the influence of those facts.

Hence, correct option should be C.
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Re: Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration [#permalink] New post   04 Feb 2024, 15:45
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Adviser: Flights and accommodation for members of our administration to overseas destinations seriously depleted last year's annual budget. I propose a reduction in the number of such administrative journeys in order to complete the upcoming year with a more significant profit than that of last year.

Foreign minister: Such visits often lead to financial partnerships that can form the basis for economic growth through cooperation.

The foreign minister responds to the advisor's proposal by


A. indicating that the factual information chosen by the adviser to support the proposal is irrelevant to the problem being contemplated

Incorrect.

To answer this Dialog Analysis question, first break down the adviser's argument. The first sentence provides information (a premise) while the last sentence begins with the phrase I propose, letting us know that it's the plan and the argument's conclusion:

    Premise: overseas visits last year carried high costs
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    Conclusion/Plan: this year let's have fewer visits overseas

    Possible Assumption: the visits don't earn anything

Next, break down the foreign minister's response:

    (i) the visits often lead to the creation of revenue

The foreign minister's statement doesn't directly relate to the adviser's argument in any way. Instead, the statement adds new information which affects the suggestion made by the adviser.


B. challenging the position taken by the adviser by highlighting a flaw in the logical reasoning that was used to connect the visits to the low profits

Incorrect.

The link suggested by the adviser seems quite logical - the visits are expensive and, therefore, affect the profits. The foreign minister doesn't not argue with this point. Therefore, it would be wrong to say that the foreign minister was highlighting a flaw in the adviser's logic.


C. refraining from objecting to the facts used to support the proposal while presenting a positive factor that can outweigh the influence of those facts

The foreign minister does not deny the adviser's facts, but has a problem with the suggested plan of limiting the visits. The counter premise is the fact that visits ultimately lead to further revenues (economic growth) and, therefore, make the costs of the visits less significant, and even negligible to a certain point.


D. offering a viewpoint that attempts to undermine the factual information put forward in order to support that proposal

Incorrect.

To answer this Dialog Analysis question, first break down the adviser's argument. The first sentence provides information (a premise) while the last sentence begins with the phrase I propose, letting us know that it's the plan and the argument's conclusion:

    Premise: overseas visits last year carried high costs
    =
    Conclusion/Plan: this year let's have fewer visits overseas

    Possible Assumption: the visits don't earn anything

Next, break down the foreign minister's response:

    (i) the visits often lead to the creation of revenue

First, the foreign minister does not present a viewpoint (opinion) but rather factual information (a new premise). Second, the foreign minister has no problem with the facts about the visits being expensive, and does not try to deny this fact.


E. suggesting an alternative strategy, and thereby weakening that put forward by the adviser as a solution to a certain problem

Incorrect.

The foreign minister's statement is not an alternative strategy; the minister does not suggest any other way of lowering costs, but instead suggests a mitigating factor, that is, a redeeming quality about the flights.
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