“The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Tit

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The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it! Isn't it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives? Trade in your old driver today -- and HitItFar tomorrow!"

All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement EXCEPT:

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.

B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory.

C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.

D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.

E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.

souvik101990 · Accepted Answer

“The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it! Isn’t it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives? Trade in your old driver today — and HitItFar tomorrow!”

All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement EXCEPT:

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.

B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory.

C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.

D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.

E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.

MANHATTAN GMAT OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

As an advertisement, this passage attempts to entice the reader into purchasing a new HitItFar driver by touting its benefits, both implied or explicit. The key to answering this question is to be able to analyze each claim to determine whether it is implied, explicitly stated, or neither.

(A) By asking the reader rhetorically "isn't it time you added power ... and distance ...  ?", the advertisement implies that the use of the club will add "power ... and distance" and, hence, will improve one's play.

(B) CORRECT. The advertisement states that the 12 major championships winner have recently switched to the new driver. There is nothing in the passage to imply that any of them were using the driver at the time of their victories; hence, this claim is neither implied, nor made explicitly, in the passage.

(C) It is a reasonable assumption that professional golfers, particularly those skilled enough to win a major championship, are experts and know what constitutes a great club. The advertisement makes this implication and reinforces it by citing the recent decision of these golfers to switch to the HitItFar driver; this provides an implicit expert endorsement for the HitItFar driver.

(D) The point of the advertisement is to prompt the reader into purchasing a new driver to replace his or her old driver in order to "add power and distance"; this implies that the new driver is superior to the reader's existing driver.

(E) This claim is explicitly stated in the first sentence of the passage.

aknine · Answer

B

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.---  "Trade in your old driver today -and HitItFar tomorrow!" 
B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory.---  it only mentions that recently the last 12 winners have switched to this... we don't know whether they won any games after that or not. 
C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.---  "This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it!" 
D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.---  "Isn't it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives?" 
E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.---  "The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head."

Amit1408GMAThunk · Answer

The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it! Isn't it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives? Trade in your old driver today -- and HitItFar tomorrow!"

All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement EXCEPT:

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play. 
B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory. 
C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club. 
D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver. 
E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.

Clearly option B is the correct answer choice.

Conclusion of the argument:- Trade in your old driver today -- and HitItFar tomorrow!"

Most important Premise:- This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it!

Option A:- It is clearly assumed that the current club is not as good as HititFar. If option A is negated, then the conclusion gets negated and hence it is an assumption.

Option B:- It cannot be assumed that the last 12 winners used the HitItFar club to win those championships. It is also possible that the HitItFar got launched after those 12 winners had already won. Or they used other clubs for the championships and then look forward to buy the HitItFar. Hence this cannot be the assumption of the argument. Hence B is the answer choice.

Option C:- It is assumed that the last 12 winners of the major tour championships, are experts and know what a great golf club is. If this option is negated, then the conclusion is affected to a certain extent.

Option D:- Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver. - If this option is negated then there is no need to change the golf club or buy the new golf club - Hititfar. Hence it can be assumed.

Option E:- It is assumed that no other category or brand of golf club uses Titanium Kryptonium alloy and because of using Titanium Kryptonium alloy on the club's head, it makes the club better. It also assumes that no other element used in other brands of clubs are better than HititFar clubs. Hence this is the assumption as well.

Hope this helps!

zoskybuck · Answer

The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head. This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it! Isn’t it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives? Trade in your old driver today — and HitItFar tomorrow!” All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement EXCEPT:

All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement except means that we can either deduce 4 of the options from the argument but one cannot be implied or deduced from the advertisement..SO we need to look for one which we cannot deduce(whether implicitly or explicitly from the advertisement.

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play. Implied in this statement 'Isn’t it time for you to add power to your swing and distance to your drives"...Thus its not our answer since it is implied in the above advertisement

B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory. Bingo ..Our answer..This was not implied in the advertisement..The last 12 major tour championships have all recently switched to it didn't mean it helped them win the last 12 major championship..They switched to it after winning the championships!!

C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club. For the fact that they switched to the gulf club implies that they are experts and know what constitutes a great gold club since they are the ones that use gold clubs 
D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver. Implied in this statement "Trade in your old driver today — and HitItFar tomorrow"

E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers. "The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head"

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Lucy Phuong · Answer

May I know from what source this question is?

I'm confused between choices B & C. And still don't get why C can be implied from stimulus. IMHO, C is just a real-world assumption, not anything derived from the advertisement.

singhabhijeet · Answer

HitItFar tomorrow!” All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement
EXCEPT:HitItFar tomorrow!” All of the following claims are either implied or made explicitly in the above advertisement
EXCEPT
• Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.
• The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory.
• Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.
• Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.
• Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.

First of all this is a EXCEPT question. Which means that answer choices will have possible assumptions as AC (Answer Choice).

Now coming to you confusion points.

•  The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory. This statement is false. Champions first won the championships and then switched to new HitItFar golf drivers. Since it's very good.

As this statement is false as per the argument. It's can't be argument. 
 
• Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club. This is a assumptions. Therefore it can't be answer. Indeed championship winners are experts else they will not be able to will the tournament. Hence they know what constitutes a great golf club. To support this argument has mentioned it.  This driver is SO good, the last 12 winners of the major tour championships have all recently switched to it!  .

Hope it helps you.

souvik101990 · Answer

Hope you guys got this one right! Feel free to post questions/thoughts. This question has also been included in the  Assumption Mondays Revision Thread . Check back there next Monday for more questions!

JesusWalks · Answer

I don't think this should be labeled as an assumption question. At the very least, it should have multiple tags. If it's explicitly stated in the premise, it can't be an assumption.

Kritisood · Answer

nightblade354 
the question stem says "The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy  to strengthen its head "
E says "Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers."

How can E be implied? the ques stem only states that that the new driver is the only golf club that uses TK to  STRENGTHEN  its head, it doesn't say it is the only to  use  TK in the heads of the drivers. Its still poss that other golf clubs use it too but NOT for the same purpose at the HitItFar driver?

nightblade354 · Answer

Kritisood ,

The new HitItFar driver is the only golf club that uses space-age Titanium-Kryptonium alloy to strengthen its head.

Statement: Titanium-kryptonium --> head Hitfar
 
E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers. --  Titanium-kryptonium --> head Hitfar

The reason these two statements are the same is because "the only" is a sufficient condition, where as "only" is a necessary condition. So these two statements, though appearing slightly different, are indeed identical. Now, per your statement above, you are right that the statement is WAY too specific to warrant (E) being actually implied. But, there is another answer that is far less implied. This is a great example of why non-official questions are hard to practice on because you are 100% correct. We have to assume something, which is always incorrect!

jaisonsunny77 · Answer

A. Switching to the HitItFar driver will improve your play.  -  implied .

B. The HitItFar driver helped the last 12 major championship winners achieve their victory. - the passage only implies that these 12 championship winners ''switched'' to the Hititfar club; the passage does not imply that these champions used Hititfar to win the championships. Hence,   (B) is the right answer choice   to this EXCEPT question. 
 
C. Major championship winners are experts and know what constitutes a great golf club.  -  implied 
 
D. Your existing driver is inferior to the HitItFar driver.  -  implied 
 
E. Only HitItFar golf clubs have Titanium-Kryptonium alloy in the head of their drivers.  -  implied .

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