Dieticians in Pakistan claim that treatment of those people who seek help to quit the habit of over eating are unable to stop overeating. Therefore dieticians have concluded that success in breaking such habit is rate. A large-scale survey shows that thousands of people have quit the habit of overeating. If both of the statements above are correct an explanation that resolves their apparent contradiction is
Dieticians claim that habit of over eating is incurable and the survey claims that it is curable. The discrepancy between both statements can be removed if we say that the people who have will power to cure the habit of overeating do not go for treatment but ost of such people were included in the survey.
The Rawalpindi city council started a publicity campaign for convincing the people to use public transport rather than their own transport in the city. After two months later there was a decrease in private transport on the roads in the mid city area. The city council claimed that their publicity campaign was successful to convince people to leave their cars at home and ride the city bus service to work. Which of the following if true creates the most serious doubt on the conclusion drawn above?
City councils claim that it is the result of their campaign that people are using public transport will be shaken if we give an alternative reason of the result. Choice B presents a good alternative reason.
Dr. Subhans Extensive clinical trials of the new herbal drug Podine have demonstrated that Podine is effective in slowing the rate of aging in mer. Dr. Talib disagrees and cites a recent study suggesting that Podine is also to chemotherapy or other cancer treatments. Dr. Talibs response suggests that he has interpreted Dr. Subhans statement to mean that
When Dr. Talib. Ways that he disagrees with Dr. Subhans statement because of the fact that women find the drug effective the strong implication is that Dr. Talib has interpreted Dr. Subhans statement as meaning that only men can use Podine.
In an examination Rizwana has more marks than the Fauzia. Shugufta has fever marks than the Zahid. Fauzia and Abid have more marks than Shugufta. If the above is true which of the following must also be true?
Many people do not read the books they purchase. For example seventeen percent of college students in Pakistan have text books but only forty-five percent of them read more than once a yea and only seventeen percent read more than once a week. Which of the following if true casts doubt on the claim that most people read the books they purchase?
Asmat Chughtai is considered by many literacy critics to be one of the greatest Indo Pak writers of the 20th century if not of all time. However her sexist attitude posturing have made her less popular than some of her contemporaries among todays readers. If the statements above are true all of the following must also be true EXCEPT.
If she expresses sexist attitude in her writings and becomes less popular as compared to her contemporaries then her contemporaries must not express that attitude
Although we may be exposed to all the various types of music - classical folk jazz rock and country over the course of a lifetime the type of music we loved as adolescents will always be our favorite. Which of the following if true would most seriously weaken the argument above?
In his book Black Thief Mr. Kashif claimed that when fellow writer Mr. Salman remarked to him. The rich are different from you and I Mr. Kashif responded by saying Yes they have more money. All of the following conclusions can be reasonably drawn from the above EXCEPT.
Answers (A) through (D) are all implied by one part of the exchange of the other. However we cannot tell from the information provided in the passage whether or not Mr. Kashif had ever been rich so answer(E) is the best answer.
Beginning at the end of 1965 war the enormous expenditure on arms that the Cold war forced on both Pakistan and India while having no obvious effect on the quality of life in Pakistn resulted in a considerable decrease in the quality of life in India. This in turn led to general dissatisfaction disappointment in the Indian social system and ultimately the dismantling of Indian government. Which of the following if true most seriously weakens the argument above?
Dissatisfaction with the quality of life was only one of many factors which contributed to the Indian Peoples disillusionment with their social system.
The passages state that one and only cause - the costs of the arms race - produced the collapse of Indian Social system. Choice (E) points out the weakness of this argument by suggesting what is probably true - that so massive an effect was probably the result of a combination of factors rather than just one.
The compulsory training for city wagon drivers resulted in a reduction in fatal accident rate over the past two years. Compared to the five-year period prior to the compulsion of the training fatal accident rate decreased by 25 percent. Which one of the following if true most substantially strengthens the argument above?