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have you tried answering the question in your own words first by the way? Were we talking about it?

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Sorry, then it was not you then. That’s my suggestion for hard questions - try answer them in your own words and match the answer to yours. It is tricky and at first is hard but it is much more accurate.

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what sources we donot exoect in Gmat.
Only Lsat or any other too?

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Women who are married sleep more soundly than women who have never married or lost a partner, according to research from an eight-year study. Furthermore, it is well established that sleeping less than six hours a night makes you 12% more likely to die prematurely than someone who sleeps up to eight hours. Therefore, getting married increases a woman’s life expectancy.

Which of the following, if true, does NOT strengthen the argument above?

A. Populations with lower odds of premature death have higher life expectancies.

B. Getting married does not lead to oversleep.

C. Marriage may introduce lifespan-shortening factors into a woman’s life, but these factors tend to be collectively of less consequence than the benefit of sounder sleep.

D. Not sleeping soundly is the key reason women who cannot sleep at least eight hours a night fail to do so.

E. The psychology of women who marry is, on average, more conducive to sound sleep than that of women who have never married or lost a partner

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oh sry d strengthen

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Oh still wrong, does NOT strenthen

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B is my final answer

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Does it not mean to weaken the conclusion?

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B is a great trap. I used to absolutely detest this question. I’m not sure regarding its source but it is definitely not GMAT OG.
B (no oversleep) is a strengthener cos passage says up to 8 hours of sleep increases life expectancy. Key here is the general knowledge that oversleep=8+ hours of sleep.

E is the answer. As the gap in the passage is between sound sleep = higher LE. But the reason of higher LE is the quantity of sleep (between 6.5-8hrs) rather than the quality of sleep (sound). We cannot hence conclude that it is sound sleep that results in higher LE.

Try reading E as an isolated statement like in DS. It is usually the carry forward of reasoning from D to E that could lead to considering E as a strengthener.
A controversial question surely, but HQ nonetheless.

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I think E is strengthening the argument. The conclusion of the argument has to do with the quantity of sleep (8hrs) and not the quality (sound sleep).
E says, married women are likely to get sound sleep than their counterparts. It doesn’t talk about whether or not they’re getting 8hrs of sleep or less than that. For all we know, they may get a sound sleep of less than 8 hrs. Or, they may get a sound sleep of more than 8hrs.
Hence, i ruled out E.
The least worst option i could choose is A.
Please help my reasoning here, if i’m wrong.

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Disucssed here:

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OA is E.

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anyone kind enough to explain this

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anyone kind enough to explain this

We are given the following average times for people leaving a parking space :

32 seconds - when alone
39 seconds - when someone is waiting quietly
51 seconds - when someone is waiting not-so-quietly

The reason given for this trend is that there is some sort of residual possessiveness for the parking space and this increases as per the above trends.

We need to find an answer that explains the timing trend but says that it isn’t the possessiveness for the parking space but something else.

A) Seems like a good explanation. Says it isn’t the possessiveness but the performance pressure that holds the driver. Makes sense.

B) This means time (alone) should be equal to time (someone waiting quietly), which isn’t the case

C) This means time (some waiting quietly) should be equal to time (someone honking while waiting), which isn’t the case

D) This doesn’t mean anything in context of our question

E) Again, alike B, this should mean that time time (alone) should be equal to time (someone waiting quietly) and only time (honking) should increase significantly, which isn’t the case

I’d go with A. OA is also A but there is no official explanation on the post. Tag says LSAT so maybe a google search will help with the official explanation.