Residents of Milatia are known for their longevity. Nutritionists main

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Residents of Milatia are known for their longevity. Nutritionists maintain that the Milatians can attribute their increased lifespans to their diets. In addition to consuming a diet full of leafy greens, they also have a low intake of saturated fats, which have been implicated in heart disease and atherosclerosis. Therefore, if one wants to have increased longevity, he or she should follow a Milatia based diet.

Which one of the following is an assumption on which the argument depends?

A. Other aspects of the Militians’ lifestyle do not affect the observed trend of longevity in Milatia.

B. Adopting another people’s eating habits will, in of itself, not confer the same advantages, unless a person incorporates exercise into his or her life.

C. The Milatian lifespan has a relatively uniform distribution, with very few dying young from natural causes.

D. Milatians are the only people in whom there is a perceived link between diet and longevity.

E. All Milatians are known to have a lifespans that are above average.

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sayan640 · Answer

A should be the answer .
B can be rejected because even if the "same" advantage is not achieved , still if following Milatian diet plan confers some advantages , then also our conclusion can be derived.

Is there any other good way to apply negation technique ( for conditional statement ) to reject B ?  MartyMurray   KarishmaB 
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diasdexter766 · Answer

Option A works as it adds credibility to the conclusion, assuring that no other factors other than diet alone contribute to the longevity of the lifespan of the Milatians

sayan640 · Answer

Request you to put in views for option B

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diasdexter766 · Answer

Option B is irrelevant as bringing the aspect of exercise is clearly out of scope and does not feature in the argument itself.

For Assumption questions in particular the golden rule is Assumption = Premise + Conclusion.

Exercise and other's diet - is out of context.

Hope it helps!!

hughng92 · Answer

My strategy for this TYPE of question ("Assumption") is that to find an answer that gets rid of the "gap" that potentially weakens the argument's logic.

Here, one potential weakening answer choice is A) because if there are existing external factors, outside of diet, that affect the longevity, then the given argument is not logically tight. Therefore, if you can confirm that there are not such external factors, then that closes the "gap".

Bunuel · Answer

Official Explanation:

The argument assumes that following a Milatian diet will lead to an increased lifespan. The correct answer will call this link into question by citing another factor, besides food, that could account for Militians' longevity.

(A) is the answer because the 'other aspects' provide an alternative cause to diet that could account for increased lifespan (clean air, exercise, etc. could be some of these factors).

(B) could function as an answer choice that calls into question or weakens the argument. However, (B) is not an assumption. One way to determine if the answer choice is an assumption the argument rests on is to negate the assumption. To negate an assumption is to say the opposite of the answer choice: "Other aspects of the Militians' lifestyle affect the observed trend." If the negation weakens the argument, then that is the answer we are looking for. However, an answer that simply weakens the argument, as (B) does, is not an assumption of the argument itself.

If we negate (C), "does not] have a uniform� it doesn't weaken the argument. A Milatian diet is still responsible for longevity, just not for everyone.

The paragraph is not concerned with other people. (D) is out.

The paragraph doesn't assume that all Milatians have a long lifespan. (E) is therefore out.

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