Endurance, speed, and strength are vital for any

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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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Zarrolou · Answer

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.

IMO C

argha · Answer

Whats wrong with B?

Regards

Argha

vishnuns39620 · Answer

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!

gmat1sam · Answer

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)

argha · Answer

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.

Regards

Argha

BeckyRobinsonTPR · Answer

Inference questions requires you to look at the facts and then find an answer that must be true based only on those facts.

WaterFlowsUp · Answer

thanks becky for the detailed explanation. This happened to be my CR question , so an explanation was much needed.

bforbala · Answer

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.

blueseas · 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.

HOPE IT HELPS

Crytiocanalyst · Answer

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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