CR: Miscellaneous and Minor Question Types (700-800) 1. If, in a tennis tournament, a match reaches a fifth-set tiebreak, the lower-ranked player always loses the tiebreak (and, therefore, the match). If Rafael, the second-ranked player, wins a tournament by beating Roger, the top-ranked player, then the match must not have included a fifth-set tiebreak. Which of the following arguments most closely mimics the reasoning used in the above argument? • If a woman with a family history of twins gets pregnant three times, she will have one set of twins. Jennifer, who falls into this category, had two sets of twins, soshe must not have gotten pregnant exactly three times. • If a salesman sells more product than anyone else in a calendar year, then he will earn an all-expenses-paid vacation. Joe earned an all-expense-paid vacation,so he must have sold more product than anyone elsefor the year. • A newspaper can charge a 50% premium for ads if its circulation surpasses 100,000; if the circulation does not pass 100,000, therefore, the newspaper can’t chargeany kind of premium for ads. • If a student is in the top 10% of her class, she will earn a college scholarship. Anna is not in the top 10% of her class, so she will not earn a scholarship. • All of the players on a football team receive a cash bonus if the team wins the Super Bowl. If quarterback Tom Brady earned a cash bonus last year, he must have been a member of the winning Super Bowl team. 2. Studies show that repeated exposure to an allergen can trigger an allergic person’s defense mechanisms to the extent that eventually, even minimal exposure to the allergen can provoke a stronger than normal, evenlife-threatening reaction. Which of the following is the best analogy for the process by which minimal contact with an allergen can cause a major reaction? • People with unhealthy diets are more susceptible todiabetes and high blood pressure. • Because minor earthquakes can weaken the existing infrastructure in an area, a series of minor earthquakes can sometimes lead to more damage than a single major earthquake. • Peanut allergy sufferers should avoid all potentialcontact with peanuts. • A student who fails a test can still earn a good grade if she works hard for the rest of the semester. • Drivers who speed regularly are more likely to be caught than those who speed only occasionally. 3. The “Doppler effect” refers to the perceived change in pitch that occurs when the source of a sound is in motion relative to the observer. For example, the siren ona passing police car will sound higher than its true pitch as the car approaches, sound the same as its true pitch asthe car passes, and sound lower than its true pitch as the car travels away from the observer. If two trains pass each other going opposite directions on parallel east-west tracks, which of the following observations provides another illustration of the effect described above? • If the eastbound train blows its horn as they pass,passengers on the westbound train will hear a sound that decreases in pitch. • If the eastbound train blows its horn as they pass,passengers on the westbound train will hear a sound that increases in pitch. • If the eastbound train blows its horn as they pass,passengers on the eastbound train will hear a sound that decreases in pitch. • If the eastbound train blows its horn as they pass,passengers on the eastbound train will hear a sound that increases in pitch. • If the eastbound train blows its horn as they pass,passengers on the eastbound train will hear a sound that is steady in pitch. 4. Jim: The United States Mint has recently announced thatthe rising cost of raw copper, nickel, and zinc has pushed the cost of manufacturing each penny and nickel to more than 1 cent and 5 cents respectively. In addition, there are very few, if any, items that can be purchased for 5 cents, and virtually none that can be purchased for a penny. Since it appears that both the penny and the nickelno longer provide a necessary function in today’s economy, I propose that the government simply stop minting thecoins at a loss and declare the base unit of U.S. currency to be the dime. Mary:Don’t be silly. This would mean that all prices would round up to the nearest dime and nobody would go for that. There is simply no way that Congress would approve, much less consider, such an unpopular measure. In her response to Jim, Mary does all of the following EXCEPT: • Makes an assumption about how Jim’s proposal would affect prices. • Implies that Congressional approval is necessary for Jim’s proposal to take effect. • Provides a reason why Jim’s proposal would be difficult to implement, regardless of its justification. • Assumes that Congress will never approve a policy that has little public support. • Attempts to undermine all or some of the premises upon which Jim justifies his proposal. 5. Owner of JavaJoint: Over the past year, the coffee store has become a daily hang-out for more and more teenagers. Many of our adult customers do not appear comfortable with this kind of crowd and some of them have told me that they will no longer stop here for a coffee drink. Since my goal is to maximize our revenue, I want you to di scourage teenagers from comi ng here and start cul tivating a more adul t crowd. Store manager: Are you sure? On average, each teenager spends just as much as the average adult does, and we have far more new customers than we have lost over the past year. The store manager responds to the owner by _____ • questioning the veracity of owner’s evidence • arguing that it would be difficult to implement theowner’s directive • offering new evidence implying that the status quo is not incompatible with the owner’s goal • demonstrating that the average teenage customer is as profitable as the average adult customer • offering new evidence refuting that presented by the owner 6. Garbage in this neighborhood probably will not becollected until Thursday this week. Garbage is usually collected here on Wednesdays, and the garbage collectors in this city are extremely reliable. However, Monday was a public holiday, and after a public holiday that falls on aMonday, garbage throughout the city is supposed tobe collected one day later than usual. The argument proceeds by • treating several pieces of irrelevant evidence as though they provide support for the conclusion • indirectly establishing that one thing is likely tooccur by directly ruling out all of the alternative possibilities • providing information that allows application of a general rule to a specific case • generalizing about all actions of a certain kind onthe basis of a description of one such action • treating something that is probable as though it were inevitable 7. Jane: Professor Harper’s ideas for modifying the design of guitars are of no value because there is no general agreement among musicians as to what a guitar should sound like and, consequently, no widely accepted basis for evaluating the merits of a guitar’s sound. Mark: What’s more, Harper’s ideas have had enough time to be adopted if they really resulted in superior sound. It took only ten years for the Torres design for guitars to be almost universally adopted because of t he improvement it makes in tonal quality. Which one of the following most accurately describes the relationship between Jane’s argument and Mark’s argument? • Mark’s argument shows how a weakness in Jane’s argument can be overcome. • Mark’s argument has a premise in common with Jane’sargument. • Mark and Jane use similar techniques to argue for different conclusions. • Mark’s argument restates Jane’s argument in other terms. • Mark’s argument and Jane’s argument are based on conflicting suppositions. 8. Jorge: You won’t be able to write well about the rock music of the 1960s, since you were just an infant then. Rock music of the 1960s was created by and for people who were then in their teens and early twenties. Ruth: Your reasoning is absurd. There are living writers who write well about ancient Roman culture, even though those writers are obviously not a part of ancient Roman culture. Why should my youth alone prevent me from writing well about the music of a period as recent as the 1960s? Ruth responds to Jorge’s criticism by • challenging his claim that she was not in her teensor early twenties during the 1960s • clarifying a definition of popular culture that is left implicit in Jorge’s argument • using the example of classical culture in order to legitimize contemporary culture as an object worthyof serious consideration • offering an analogy to counter an unstated assumption of Jorge’s argument • casting doubt on her opponent’s qualification to make judgments about popular culture 9. Anne: Halley’s Comet, now in a part of its orbit relatively far from the Sun, recently flared brightly enough to be seen by telescope. No comet has ever been observed to flare so far from the Sun before, so such a flare must be highly unusual. Sue: Nonsense. Usually no one bothers to try to observe comets when they are so far from the Sun. Thisflare was observed only because an observatory was tracking Halley’s Comet very carefully. Sue challenges Anne’sreasoning by • pointing out that Anne’s use of the term “observed”is excessively vague • drawing attention to an inconsistency between two of Anne’s claims • presenting evidence that directly contradicts Anne’s evidence • offering an alternative explanation for the evidence Anne cites • undermining some of Anne’s evidence while agreeing with her conclusion 10. Ingrid: Rock music has produced no songs as durable as the songs of the 1940s, which continue to berecorded by numerous performers. Jerome: True, rock songs are usually recorded only once. 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Hello Souvik

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Are these really 700 level questions?

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souvik101990 I just came across this thread.
It really made my mind run.
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Was wondering if you could post another round of such questions.
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Even though I am yet to attend, this looks wonderful. I will definitely attempt this tomorrow with a fresh mind

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