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GMAT Question of the Day: Critical Reasoning

The average normal infant born in the United States weighs between twelve and fourteen pounds at the age of three months. Therefore, if a three-month-old child weighs only ten pounds, its weight gain has been below the United States average.
Which of the following indicates a flaw in the reasoning above?
A) Weight is only one measure [...]

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 8th, 2010 with 14 comments.
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The average normal infant born in the United States weighs between twelve and fourteen pounds at the age of three months. Therefore, if a three-month-old child weighs only ten pounds, its weight gain has been below the United States average.
Which of the following indicates a flaw in the reasoning above?

A) Weight is only one measure of normal infant development.
B) Some three-month-old children weigh as much as seventeen pounds.
C) It is possible for a normal child to weigh ten pounds at birth.
D) The phrase ?below average? does not necessarily mean insufficient.
E) Average weight gain is not the same as average weight.

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 8th, 2010 with 14 comments.
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#1. July 30th, 2006, at 12:49 AM.

E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com vishwa
#2. July 31st, 2006, at 4:24 AM.

E

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#3. July 31st, 2006, at 1:24 PM.

the answer is E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com V Pat
#4. July 31st, 2006, at 7:01 PM.

E) Average weight gain is not the same as average weight.

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#5. July 31st, 2006, at 9:28 PM.

The evidence on which the conclusion is based concerns only average weight, but the conclusion concerns average weight gain. Because there is not necessarily a connection between an absolute measurement-such as weight-and a rate of increase-such as weight gain-this argument is flawed. The relevant reasoning error is described in E, which is the best answer. Neither of A and D identifies a reasoning error in the passage, since the passage makes no claim that weight is the only relevant measure of infant development in general, and no claim about sufficiency. B and C are consistent with the claims in the passage, and neither identifies a flaw in the argument.

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#6. July 31st, 2006, at 9:33 PM.

Correct answer is E.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Rajshree Misra
#7. March 20th, 2007, at 6:36 PM.

E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com valmik
#8. March 21st, 2007, at 8:30 AM.

E) Average weight gain is not the same as average weight.

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#9. April 12th, 2007, at 1:16 AM.

E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Ashish Khandelwal
#10. March 18th, 2008, at 1:26 PM.

E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com reetu
#11. March 18th, 2008, at 4:26 PM.

definitly E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Deeks
#12. March 21st, 2008, at 1:03 AM.

E

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kuldeep Sharma
#13. November 12th, 2008, at 2:48 AM.

e

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Binita
#14. February 8th, 2010, at 8:46 PM.

E

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