Less than 10 percent of the world`s people, and of the participants in

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Less than 10 percent of the world`s people, and of the participants in combat sports worldwide, are left-handed. However, a majority of top-level competitors in combat sports worldwide are left-handed.

Which of the following, if true, most helps to resolve the discrepancy presented in the passage?

A. Left-handedness is more common in primitive cultures with high rates of death by violence than in other primitive cultures.

B. Among top-level competitors in many non-combat sports, such as tennis and baseball, left-handedness is also much more common than in the general population.

C. In many cultures, children are discouraged from performing tasks with their left hands, even if the left hand is their dominant hand.

D. Because left-handedness is so rare, opponents of left-handed fighters are ill equipped to handle the positions and angles from which those fighters attack.

E. A significant number of left-handed competitors in combat sports have trained under coaches who have forced them to fight from right-handed positions and angles.

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yazlal25 · Answer

Could you please provide an explanation for this.

amitavkumar · Answer

Premise says less than 10 percent is left handed in combat sports but majority of these top level competitors are left handed. 
This can be possible when these 10 percent are better performing or, have some edge over right handed competitors which is mentioned in option D "  Because left-handedness is so rare, opponents of left-handed fighters are ill equipped to handle the positions and angles from which those fighters attack.  "
Left handers have an edge over right handers.

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION FROM MANHATTAN

(A) While the phenomenon described in this answer choice very likely arises from the same factors that cause the discrepancy in the passage, it does nothing to explain the reason for that discrepancy.

(B) Non-combat sports are outside the scope of the passage, which is concerned only with combat sports.

(C) No reasonably direct relationship exists between this discouragement and the preponderance of left-handers among top fighters.

(D) Correct
 
This choice describes a situation that affords left-handed fighters a systematic advantage over their right-handed counterparts. If left-handed fighters are at an advantage, then there should be a greater proportion of them among high-level combatants.

(E) If this statement is true, then the left-handers who have trained under such coaches are at a relative disadvantage. This situation actually makes the information in the passage even more incongruous.

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