GMAT Question of the Day :Critical Reasoning

President of the United States: I have received over 2,000 letters on this issue, and the vast majority of them support my current position. These letters prove that most of the people in the country agree with me.
Which of the following, if true, most weakens the President’s conclusion?
(A) The issue is a very divisive one [...]

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 1st, 2010 with 28 comments.
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Which of the following, if true, most weakens the President’s conclusion?

(A) The issue is a very divisive one on which manypeople have strong opinions.
(B) Some members of Congress disagree with the President’s position.
(C) People who disagree with the President feel more strongly about the issue than do people who agree with him.
(D) People who agree with the President are more likely to write to him than are people who disagree with him.
(E) During the presidential campaign, the President stated a position on this issue that was somewhat different from his current position.

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mehvishalyee
#1. December 14th, 2006, at 10:28 AM.

mrinal
#2. December 16th, 2006, at 12:07 PM.

shah1237
#3. December 24th, 2006, at 1:39 PM.

Ans is D:- with out doubt…

Nrip Nihalani
#4. December 14th, 2007, at 1:24 PM.

Pawan
#5. December 15th, 2007, at 3:53 AM.

mani kant
#6. December 21st, 2007, at 12:45 PM.

rj
#7. December 13th, 2008, at 10:20 PM.

I am new to this…. where and when can I get the correct answer?

Kuldeep Shandilya
#8. December 14th, 2008, at 3:24 AM.

Arvindh
#9. December 14th, 2008, at 7:09 AM.

Without doubt
D

Dharm
#10. December 14th, 2008, at 9:14 AM.

option D

priyanka
#11. December 14th, 2008, at 1:21 PM.

neha sood
#12. December 14th, 2008, at 9:10 PM.

Prashant
#13. December 15th, 2008, at 9:50 AM.

D is my answer

kapil
#14. December 19th, 2008, at 11:01 PM.

Avinash
#15. December 22nd, 2008, at 12:50 PM.

Ans: E

The statement saying during elections president had a diffferent view on the same matter and he got elected . So people likely supported his initial views. Now president has a opinion of the same subject would weaken the statement for now saying he thinks most of the people support him.

Jiten
#16. December 25th, 2008, at 7:17 PM.

President’s conclusion is based on the figure of 2000 (no of people who wrote to him)… His assumption is that 2000 represents “most of the people”)

we should look for an option which weakens the above mentioned assumption. I think option D does it well.

There is no detail about the elections in the argument, however it may be true but we should not go out of the scope of the details given in the argument.

syed
#17. December 26th, 2008, at 4:54 PM.