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Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  Updated on: 15 Oct 2017, 10:33
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Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any professional boxer. Besides these, there are other factors such as ability to choose a strategy and to adapt to any opponent that determine whether the boxer will or will not succeed in the professional ring. Furthermore, some distinguished boxers, like Rocky Marciano, were less than 5’7” tall but were very successful in the professional ring.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage above?
(A)The height of a boxer contributes more to his strength and endurance than to his ability to choose a strategy and adapt to different opponents.
(B)he height of a boxer does not determine his chances for success in professional boxing.
(C)To succeed in professional boxing, one does not necessarily have to be at least 5’7” tall.
(D)If a boxer is taller than 5’7”, he is sure to succeed as a professional boxer.
(E)The height of a boxer is not the most important factor determining his endurance, speed, and strength.


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Originally posted by guerrero25 on 15 Jul 2013, 06:32.
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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 08:24
Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage above?

In these question the answer is "already" in the passage.

Furthermore, some distinguished boxers, like Rocky Marciano, were less than 5’7” tall but were very successful in the professional ring.
So there were some boxers less then 5'7'' tall that were successful, so YOU CAN be successful in boxing even if you are less than 5'7'' tall.

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(C)To succeed in professional boxing, one does not necessarily have to be at least 5’7” tall.


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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 10:33
Whats wrong with B?



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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 10:42
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Whats wrong with B?



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Argha,

From the given arguments, we can only conclude that many boxers under the height of 5'7 were successful. We do not know how many above 6'2 or 6'5 were successful, so we cannot extend the argument to "height does not matter".

Can can safely conclude only that height above/below 5'7 does not cause a big difference in success. But maybe, height above below 4 feet will...? Get it! :)
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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 11:08
Nothing about height can be concluded from the passage. Height may/may not influence the success of the boxer - a/b/d/e - ruled out.
One can safely say that 5'7" is not a necessity(Sentence 2 of the Question)
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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 22:21
Hi,

Thanks all for your responses. My line of reasoning was that 5'7" is just an arbitrary height and so height does not matter. I guess the mistake was to assume that the height mentioned can be arbitrary. AFTER ALL ANYTHING MENTIONED IN THE CONCLUSION IS NO LESS THAN BIBLE AND THATS WHERE I COMMITTED THE SIN.


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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  15 Jul 2013, 22:22
Inference questions requires you to look at the facts and then find an answer that must be true based only on those facts.

guerrero25 wrote:
Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any professional boxer. Besides these, there are other factors such as ability to choose a strategy and to adapt to any opponent that determine whether the boxer will or will not succeed in the professional ring. Furthermore, some distinguished boxers, like Rocky Marciano, were less than 5’7” tall but were very successful in the professional ring.

Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage above?
(A)The height of a boxer contributes more to his strength and endurance than to his ability to choose a strategy and adapt to different opponents. It is common for answer choices to bring up comparisons that do not exist in the paragraph - the paragraph does not compare height to strength and endurance so such a comparison is not an inference
(B)he height of a boxer does not determine his chances for success in professional boxing. We know that some boxers under 5'7" did well but we don't know if shorter or taller boxers do better - no way to see whether height has an influence or not
(C)To succeed in professional boxing, one does not necessarily have to be at least 5’7” tall. This is a good answer becuase it does not contain any definites - it only says you don't necessarily need to be 5'7" which is true becuase the boxer mentioned in the paragraph succeeded and was less than that height
(D)If a boxer is taller than 5’7”, he is [color=#ff0000]sure to succeed as [/color]a professional boxer. be very careful of answers with such strong wording - maybe the boxer gets the flu, something could prevent his success and there is nothing in the paragraph that says height is a guarantee of succes
(E)The height of a boxer is not the most important factor determining his endurance, speed, and strength. again, this is an unwarranted comparison - we don't knwo which is the most important factor.


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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  22 Jul 2013, 02:53
thanks becky for the detailed explanation. This happened to be my CR question , so an explanation was much needed.
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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  23 Jul 2013, 04:05
for me , E seemed to be correct.

First sentence does say Speed, Endurance and Strength are vital for success within the ring. So, we can safely correlate that height is not the only factor that determines the speed, strength and endurance of a successful boxer.
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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  23 Jul 2013, 04:39
lucasITA wrote:
why isn't E a correct answer?


(E)The height of a boxer is not the most important factor determining his endurance, speed, and strength.

We can write in other words:
The height of a boxer is important factor determining his endurance, speed, and strength.==>this sentence still satisfies the above sentence.

but we cannot infer this from the argument.....this is wrong because of the extreme word MOST used in this sentence.

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Re: Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any [#permalink] New post  11 Sep 2021, 10:36
guerrero25 wrote:
Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any professional boxer. Besides these, there are other factors such as ability to choose a strategy and to adapt to any opponent that determine whether the boxer will or will not succeed in the professional ring. Furthermore, some distinguished boxers, like Rocky Marciano, were less than 5’7” tall but were very successful in the professional ring.


Which of the following can be properly inferred from the passage above?
(A)The height of a boxer contributes more to his strength and endurance than to his ability to choose a strategy and adapt to different opponents.
This is an oversimplification this may or may not happen therefore out

(B)he height of a boxer does not determine his chances for success in professional boxing.
This may or may be the case therefore out

(C)To succeed in professional boxing, one does not necessarily have to be at least 5’7” tall.
THis is the exact inference therefore let us hang on to it

(D)If a boxer is taller than 5’7”, he is sure to succeed as a professional boxer.
This an explicit statement that cannot be validated from the passage

(E)The height of a boxer is not the most important factor determining his endurance, speed, and strength.
it could be or not we cannot effectively pin down therefore out

Therefore IMO C
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