GMAT Question of the Day – Critical Reasoning

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

HK
#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.

Shailesh
#3. October 19th, 2007, at 5:35 PM.

C

gaurav
#4. October 21st, 2007, at 8:53 AM.

c

Ankur Chawla
#5. October 21st, 2007, at 10:48 AM.

Ans is C

venky
#6. October 23rd, 2007, at 3:11 PM.

C

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

I like A and second Nishant’s logic

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.

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

Basant
#10. October 19th, 2008, at 12:46 PM.

one more for C..

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

C ……………..

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

C

Ankur
#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.

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

C

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

C

Kuldeep Sharma
#16. November 11th, 2008, at 11:33 PM.

It will be C

Ankit
#17. September 11th, 2009, at 11:33 PM.

ll go with C

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).

adutta24
#19. February 2nd, 2010, at 2:58 AM.

c

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

srimathy
#21. February 2nd, 2010, at 3:31 PM.

Option:E

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.

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.

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

C

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-.

Govind
#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.

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.

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

C

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

C but how can we confirm the answer