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29 May 2025, 00:30
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There should be a ban on television commercials for prescription drugs. These commercials put preconceived notions in people’s heads and make them ask their doctor for a drug whose side effects they are not aware of. If a person needed that drug, their doctor would have already prescribed it to them.
If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
(A) Most people who visit a doctor are already aware as to which drug the doctor will most likely prescribe to them.
(B) Television commercials for prescription drugs don’t have an educational aspect to them in that they don’t educate the consumers about the use of various drugs.
(C) Pharmaceutical companies try to sell harmful drugs to consumers by using deceptive advertising.
(D) At least some people ask doctors to recommend to them medicines whose advertisement they have seen on television.
(E) At times, doctors themselves use the advertisements for prescription drugs as a source of information to recommend medicines to their patients.
If the statements above are true, which of the following must be true?
(A) Most people who visit a doctor are already aware as to which drug the doctor will most likely prescribe to them.
(B) Television commercials for prescription drugs don’t have an educational aspect to them in that they don’t educate the consumers about the use of various drugs.
(C) Pharmaceutical companies try to sell harmful drugs to consumers by using deceptive advertising.
(D) At least some people ask doctors to recommend to them medicines whose advertisement they have seen on television.
(E) At times, doctors themselves use the advertisements for prescription drugs as a source of information to recommend medicines to their patients.
01 Jun 2025, 20:30
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Official Explanation
Answer: D
Since this is an inference question, let’s look at each option and eliminate.
(A) The people are already aware of what drug they want their doctor to recommend and not of what drug their doctor might actually recommend.
(B) Nothing can be judged about the educational aspect of television commercials for prescription drugs from the stimulus.
(C) There is nothing in the argument to suggest arriving at such an extreme and generalized inference.
(D) The correct answer, this is the point of the entire argument.
(E) This may be the case but cannot be inferred based on the information in the stimulus.
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