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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 [...]

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 5th, 2010 with 45 comments.
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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 on which many people 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 some-
what different from his current position.

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Written by Take GMAT Team on February 5th, 2010 with 45 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com V Pat
#1. November 10th, 2006, at 8:57 AM.

(D) People who agree with the President are more likely to write to him than are people who disagree with him.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Landiwe
#2. November 10th, 2006, at 6:57 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Saraswathi
#3. November 13th, 2006, at 10:03 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com bluesclues9
#4. January 19th, 2007, at 9:34 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Valmik Desai
#5. January 20th, 2007, at 1:24 AM.

(D) People who agree with the President are more likely to write to him than are people who
disagree with him.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com alwyn
#6. January 22nd, 2007, at 1:12 PM.

d

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com saurabh008
#7. August 3rd, 2007, at 5:45 PM.

d

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Siva
#8. January 14th, 2008, at 12:48 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Yogi
#9. January 14th, 2008, at 10:01 AM.

IMO D.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Bharat
#10. January 14th, 2008, at 12:19 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com shilpa
#11. August 11th, 2008, at 5:19 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jorge Huaman (Peru)
#12. August 11th, 2008, at 10:32 AM.

D is the correct one

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Jagadeesh.Pala
#13. August 11th, 2008, at 11:57 AM.

I go with option D.
Ans seems very Obvious isn’t it?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com jaspreet
#14. August 11th, 2008, at 12:50 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com deepak
#15. August 11th, 2008, at 1:40 PM.

My ans is D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Vamsi
#16. August 11th, 2008, at 2:32 PM.

D

Reasoning:

Most obv reasoning :)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com ron
#17. August 11th, 2008, at 4:28 PM.

D .The answer

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Vijay
#18. August 11th, 2008, at 8:51 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com khushali
#19. August 11th, 2008, at 9:02 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Deepak
#20. August 11th, 2008, at 10:00 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Nilam
#21. August 11th, 2008, at 10:01 PM.

wowww……its easy !
D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com raviraushanjha
#22. August 11th, 2008, at 10:12 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Laura
#23. August 11th, 2008, at 11:14 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com kapil
#24. August 12th, 2008, at 12:02 AM.

D (its realy easy)

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Preeti
#25. August 12th, 2008, at 12:09 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Rajiv Jedidiah
#26. August 12th, 2008, at 7:22 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com radhika
#27. August 13th, 2008, at 9:06 AM.

D, tooooooo obvious

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com neelima
#28. August 13th, 2008, at 11:24 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Pawan
#29. August 13th, 2008, at 12:19 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Immanuel Ashok
#30. August 13th, 2008, at 12:43 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com nagaraj
#31. August 14th, 2008, at 10:55 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Basant
#32. August 15th, 2008, at 5:47 PM.

D is my answer too…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Arkesh
#33. August 18th, 2008, at 4:21 PM.

ooohhh WooW !!!!! For the First Time in this FOrum the answer of the participants in Unanimous… What can i say ? ?
I’ll go with “D” as well…
; -))

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Mahesh
#34. August 18th, 2008, at 9:19 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com ravinder
#35. August 26th, 2008, at 12:09 AM.

d

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Amar
#36. August 30th, 2008, at 9:06 PM.

Yay rit

d

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Shobhit Bhargava
#37. September 9th, 2008, at 1:27 PM.

D
could there be any other option?
lol

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Kuldeep Sharma
#38. November 12th, 2008, at 1:31 AM.

d

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Tapas
#39. October 12th, 2009, at 9:09 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Matt
#40. February 5th, 2010, at 4:55 AM.

D. does it tell us the correct answer somewhere?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com BHANU
#41. February 5th, 2010, at 11:16 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com manisangsu
#42. February 5th, 2010, at 10:07 PM.

Its D fine, but isn’t this a repeat question..

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com success
#43. February 5th, 2010, at 10:30 PM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com adutta24
#44. February 6th, 2010, at 1:16 AM.

D

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com kashmira bhoir
#45. February 10th, 2010, at 2:25 PM.

i will go with D.

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