Aerobics instructor: Compared to many forms of exercise, kickboxing

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Aerobics instructor: Compared to many forms of exercise, kickboxing aerobics is highly risky. Overextending when kicking often leads to hip, knee, or lower-back injuries. Such overextension is very likely to occur when beginners try to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the aerobics instructor’s statements?

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the aerobics instructor’s statements?

(A) Skilled practitioners of kickboxing aerobics are unlikely to experience injuries from overextending while kicking.
(B) To reduce the risk of injuries, beginners at kickboxing aerobics should avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
(C) Beginners at kickboxing aerobics will not experience injuries if they avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
(D) Kickboxing aerobics is more risky than forms of aerobic exercise that do not involve high kicks.
(E) Most beginners at kickboxing aerobics experience injuries from trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

Source: LSAT

broall · Answer

This is a conclusion question.

(A) Skilled practitioners of kickboxing aerobics are unlikely to experience injuries from overextending while kicking.
 This choice could be true, but this choice isn't the conclusion that the argument seeks.

(B) To reduce the risk of injuries, beginners at kickboxing aerobics should avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
 Correct. This choice is strongly supported by the argument. The argument stated that the high risk is due to the fact that beginners try to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners. Thus, the argument suggests that beginners shouldn't try to do that.

(C) Beginners at kickboxing aerobics will not experience injuries if they avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
 Trying to match the high kicks is just one reason. Beginners could suffer injuries because of other reasons. This choice is wrong (because of "will not").

(D) Kickboxing aerobics is more risky than forms of aerobic exercise that do not involve high kicks.
 This choice could be true, or not. But this choice isn't the conclusion that the argument tries to seek.

(E) Most beginners at kickboxing aerobics experience injuries from trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
 This choice could be an evidence that supports the argument, but this choice isn't conclusion that the argument tries to seek.

gmatexam439 · Answer

Aerobics instructor: Compared to many forms of exercise, kickboxing aerobics is highly risky. Overextending when kicking often leads to hip, knee, or lower-back injuries. Such overextension is very likely to occur when beginners try to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the aerobics instructor’s statements?

Which one of the following is most strongly supported by the aerobics instructor’s statements?

(A) Skilled practitioners of kickboxing aerobics are unlikely to experience injuries from overextending while kicking.
As per the passage people are very likely to get injured.

(B) To reduce the risk of injuries, beginners at kickboxing aerobics should avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
Correct.

(C) Beginners at kickboxing aerobics will not experience injuries if they avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
There many ways in which a person can get injured.

(D) Kickboxing aerobics is more risky than forms of aerobic exercise that do not involve high kicks.
Than aerobics that do not involve high kicks --》this ia an extreme statement. We just know that kickboxing is more dangerous than many other forms of excercise.

(E) Most beginners at kickboxing aerobics experience injuries from trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.
Most? Exaggerated.

sunny91 · Answer

Change the tag, this is an inference question

namnamnam123 · Answer

B is my final answer.
As the instructor says "overextension is very likely to occur when beginners try to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners." It is reasonable to assume that "To reduce the risk of injuries, beginners at kickboxing aerobics should avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners".
C is tempting but wrong as it uses "WILL NOT" which is too strong.

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sony1000 · Answer

How do we know we are looking for a conclusion. E sort of repeats what has been said on the statement but is not a conclusion if B was not there would E make any sense..

deveshj21 · Answer

nightblade354 
I eliminated option E because it converts the likelihood of injury into certainty of injury, is this a correct reason for eliminating the option.
"Such over extension is very likely to occur when beginners try to match"

nightblade354 · Answer

deveshj21 , (E) is wrong because we don't know how most injuries occur. Maybe no beginners try to match their instructors. At this point, no injuries occur from this, but other injuries could still occur, thus rendering (E) incorrect.

deveshj21 · Answer

AAh a very basic thing that skipped my mind.
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Ranasaymon · Answer

(A) Skilled practitioners of kickboxing aerobics are unlikely to experience injuries from overextending while kicking.

=> The stimulus is talking about the injuries of beginners. We can not be 100% sure about the injuries of skilled practitioners

(B) To reduce the risk of injuries, beginners at kickboxing aerobics should avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

(C) Beginners at kickboxing aerobics will not experience injuries if they avoid trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

=> Extreme. The stimulus gives information about the potentiality of injuries of beginners. This option gives us certainty.

(D) Kickboxing aerobics is more risky than forms of aerobic exercise that do not involve high kicks.

=> Extreme. There may be other ways that make other forms of aerobic exercise risky

(E) Most beginners at kickboxing aerobics experience injuries from trying to match the high kicks of more skilled practitioners.

=> There is no information about the percentage of beginners in the passage.

yc168 · Answer

OE for reference:

Overview:   
The instructor says that kickboxing aerobics is a highly risky form of exercise. The instructor also indicates that beginners who try to match skilled practitioners' high kicks are very likely to overextend and that overextension often leads to injury. Your task is to identify the answer choice that is most strongly supported by these statements.

The Correct Answer:

B  The instructor indicates that overextension, which often causes injury, is very likely to occur when beginners at kickboxing aerobics attempt to match skilled practitioners' high kicks. This strongly suggests that beginners who do not attempt to match these kicks will lower their risk of overextension, and therefore also their risk of injury. It follows that to reduce their injury risk, beginners should not try to match the high kicks of skilled practitioners.

The Incorrect Answer Choices:

A  According to the instructor, beginners who try to match skilled practitioners' high kicks are especially likely to experience injuries from overextending while kicking. But even if skilled practitioners are less likely than beginners to injure themselves in this way, they may still be likely to do so. Therefore, (A) is not strongly supported by the information in the passage.

C  While the instructor's statements do support the claim that beginners at kickboxing aerobics are less likely to be injured if they avoid trying to match skilled practitioners' high kicks, they do not support (C)'s much stronger claim that they  will not  be injured if they avoid this practice.

D  Even if kickboxing aerobics is very risky, it might still be less risky than some forms of aerobic exercise that do not involve high kicks—perhaps because these other forms of exercise involve risky movements that are not part of kickboxing aerobics. So (D) is not strongly supported by the instructor's statements.

E  The instructor's statements do not support (E)'s claim that most beginners at kickboxing aerobics are injured while trying to match skilled practitioners' high kicks, since the instructor does not claim that most beginners even attempt such kicks, let alone that they are injured while doing so.

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