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GMAT Question of the Day – Critical Reasoning

The only purpose for which a particular type of tape is needed is to hold certain surgical wounds closed for ten days—the maximum time such wounds need tape. Newtape is a new brand of this type of tape.
Newtape’s salespeople claim that Newtape will improve healing because Newtape adheres twice as long as the currently used [...]

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Written by yaggarwal on February 2nd, 2010 with 29 comments.
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The only purpose for which a particular type of tape is needed is to hold certain surgical wounds closed for ten days—the maximum time such wounds need tape. Newtape is a new brand of this type of tape.
Newtape’s salespeople claim that Newtape will improve healing because Newtape adheres twice as long as the currently used tape does.
Which of the following statements, if true, would most seriously call into question the claim made by Newtape’s salespeople?
(A) Most surgical wounds take about ten days to heal.
(B) Most surgical tape is purchased by hospitals and clinics rather than by individual surgeons.
(C) The currently used tape’s adhesiveness is more than sufficient to hold wounds closed for ten
days.
(D) Neither Newtape nor the currently used tape adheres well to skin that has not been cleaned.
(E) Newtape’s adhesion to skin that has been coated with a special chemical preparation is
only half as good as the currently used tape’s adhesion to such coated skin.

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Written by yaggarwal on February 2nd, 2010 with 29 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com nishant
#1. October 19th, 2007, at 10:56 AM.

A : shows that healing is not dependent on the tape…hence weakens the claim that healing can be improved by using newtape

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#2. October 19th, 2007, at 3:57 PM.

C(?)

Salespeople used this logic
: Newtape adheres twice as long as the currently used tape does.

However, current tape’s adhesion is enough to heal the maximum time such wounds need tape.

Thus, the salespeople’s claim Newtape is better than current tape cannot be stood.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Shailesh
#3. October 19th, 2007, at 5:35 PM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com gaurav
#4. October 21st, 2007, at 8:53 AM.

c

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ankur Chawla
#5. October 21st, 2007, at 10:48 AM.

Ans is C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com venky
#6. October 23rd, 2007, at 3:11 PM.

C

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#7. October 23rd, 2007, at 10:11 PM.

I like A and second Nishant’s logic

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com sandeepdeb
#8. October 24th, 2007, at 3:05 PM.

Can any one tell me why no one considered E? Is it out of scope – it does not seem to be so to me.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com hari
#9. October 25th, 2007, at 10:46 PM.

sandeepdeb, the argument does not say anything about coated skins. so E is out of scope.
Answer is C
A is wrong because it just rephrases the premise (given in teh begining of teh argument) that surgical wounds heal in 10 days

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Basant
#10. October 19th, 2008, at 12:46 PM.

one more for C..

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#11. October 19th, 2008, at 1:45 PM.

C ……………..

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#12. October 20th, 2008, at 6:33 AM.

C

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#13. October 20th, 2008, at 2:04 PM.

(C) The currently used tape’s adhesiveness is more than sufficient to hold wounds closed for ten
days.

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#14. October 20th, 2008, at 4:39 PM.

C

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#15. October 21st, 2008, at 2:32 AM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kuldeep Sharma
#16. November 11th, 2008, at 11:33 PM.

It will be C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ankit
#17. September 11th, 2009, at 11:33 PM.

ll go with C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com goldeneye
#18. November 10th, 2009, at 2:52 AM.

Why not E?

Its a surgical wound, and surgical wounds are always coated with special chemicals (betadiene, savlon, spirit).

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#19. February 2nd, 2010, at 2:58 AM.

c

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com aryan
#20. February 2nd, 2010, at 3:16 AM.

C and E are good options but :::: C looks far better
It got to be C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com srimathy
#21. February 2nd, 2010, at 3:31 PM.

Option:E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Satya
#22. February 3rd, 2010, at 1:37 AM.

Answer should be E.

C –> Just says that the current tape is good enough. It does not weaken the arguement that the new tape heals wounds better.

E –> Gives a good reason as to why the Newtape is not a good alternative.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com KKS_GmatTaker
#23. February 3rd, 2010, at 11:36 AM.

E

bcz what is claimed is newtape will improve healing and E clearly puts that into question since tape is not even able to adhere to medically treated skin having chemicals on it.

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#24. February 3rd, 2010, at 1:53 PM.

C

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com nishant_mba
#25. February 3rd, 2010, at 3:43 PM.

Again option A talks about -most surgical wounds- whereas the premise of argument is -certain surgical wounds-., which may ore may not lie in the domain of -most-.

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#26. February 6th, 2010, at 7:46 PM.

(E) – As the statement not only says that current tape is good, but also brings in a special condition where the new tape doesn’t hold good.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com kashmira bhoir
#27. February 10th, 2010, at 9:33 PM.

I think (E) is the appropriate answer to this stimulus.

Since (E) states that Newtape’s adhesion to skin that has been coated with a special chemical preparation is
only half as good as the currently used tape’s adhesion to such coated skin. which is contradictory to the last sentence of the stimulus which mentions the claim of the salespeople.

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#28. March 3rd, 2010, at 7:26 AM.

C

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#29. March 8th, 2010, at 5:01 PM.

C but how can we confirm the answer

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