| Critical Reasoning Butler: December 2025 |
| December 4 | CR 1 | CR 2 |
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CR 1 In 1997, the evening adult education program at Bresgin University experienced a large decrease in enrollment by hotel and restaurant professionals—formerly a large segment of the program’s students. The administration believes the drop is probably due to an increase in tuition for those courses that receive degree credit, since the program had previously charged the same tuition for credit and non-credit courses.
Which of the following, if feasible, offers the best prospects for alleviating the decrease in enrollments for the evening adult education program, if the administration is correct?
A. Establish job-placement programs for students in courses relevant to hotel and restaurant professionals.
B. Conduct a publicity campaign to educate hotel and restaurant professionals on the benefits of adult education.
C. Offer credit courses in subjects relevant to hotel and restaurant professionals at the same price charged for non-credit courses.
D. Eliminate the disparity in the cost between credit and non-credit courses by increasing the price of the non-credit courses.
E. Establish a degree program made up entirely of credit courses from the evening adult education program.
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CR 2 Deep vein thrombosis is a medical condition characterized by painful and often life-threatening clogs in the veins. Researchers who examined 180 people with recurrent deep vein thrombosis and 200 without this ailment found that those with high levels of homcysteine, an amino acid,were three times more likely to have deep vein thrombosis than were those with average homocysteine levels. Based on these results,physicians recommend that people with high homocysteine levels increase their consumption of folate, a nutrient that reduces clotting by lowering levels of homocysteine.
Which of the following, if true, most indicates that the physicians’ recommendation, if acted upon, would have the desired result?
A. Those in the study with deep vein thrombosis also had irregular levels of several other amino acids.
B. People who consume high amounts of folate-rich foods such as orange juice, spinach,and broccoli have been shown to have below-average homocysteine levels.
C. People whose daily consumption of folate is less than that recommended by physicians are more prone to heart attacks and strokes than are people who consume there commended daily allowance of this nutrient.
D. If the clogs caused by deep vein thrombosis are left untreated, they may eventually lodge in the lungs and cause sudden death.
E. In a series of large, well-designed medical studies, the consumption of high levels offolate has not been associated with any serious health risks.