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Drug manufacturing giant Pfizer will soon package its drugs for adults in a new type of bottle that, for adults, will be much easier to open than Pfizer’s current, child-resistant bottles. Unfortunately, the new bottle will also be somewhat easier for young children to open, and last year, 18 percent of accidental poisonings of young children by prescription drugs involved their grandparents’ medicine. Probably, then, Pfizer’s new bottle will cause an increase in these accidents.

Which of the following, if true, most seriously undermines the argument?

A. Pharmaceutical drugs manufactured by Pfizer accounted for several of last year’s accidental poisonings of young children by their grandparents’ medicine.
B. Pfizer’s new bottles, like those they will replace, carry a large-print warning urging customers to keep the bottle out of reach of children.
C. Many adults find Pfizer’s current bottles so frustrating to open that they frequently do not reclose those bottles after use.
D. Pfizer’s new bottle is indistinguishable from its current bottle except for the shape of the cap.
E. Adults generally try to keep their medications completely inaccessible to young grandchildren


Bunuel Please explain why C is correct?

The argument is easiness of the bottle opening would cause children to take drugs because earlier children did this.

The question is about weakening this argument. Possibly, to give such reasons which undermines the claim that current drug packaging didn't cause accidents to children and something else - some new information.

Correct answer C - If adults were used to keep the bottles open, perhaps this situation would have caused children to take those drugs and cause accidents.

A. Nothing new, it's a premise - Incorrect
B. It's efforts from the company, we don't know whether implication will be done. Perhaps even after instruction adults keep their drugs near to children. Incorrect
C. As explained above Correct
D. Adds nothing - we anyway knows new bottle is easy to open for adults & children. Incorrect
E. Again irrelevant - They try to keep, but is outcome as expected? Incorrect

Hope it helps.
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