PrepTest 58, Section 3, Question 2
To keep one's hands warm during the winter, one never needs gloves or mittens. One can always keep one's hands warm simply by putting on an extra layer of clothing, such as a thermal undershirt or a sweater. After all, keeping one's vital organs warm can keep one's hands warm as well.
To keep one's hands warm during the winter, one never needs gloves or mittens. One can always keep one's hands warm simply by putting on an extra layer of clothing, such as a thermal undershirt or a sweater. After all, keeping one's vital organs warm can keep one's hands warm as well.
To keep one's hands warm during the winter, one never needs gloves or mittens. One can always keep one's hands warm simply by putting on an extra layer of clothing, such as a thermal undershirt or a sweater. After all, keeping one's vital organs warm can keep one's hands warm as well.
To keep one's hands warm during the winter, one never needs gloves or mittens. One can always keep one's hands warm simply by putting on an extra layer of clothing, such as a thermal undershirt or a sweater. After all, keeping one's vital organs warm can keep one's hands warm as well.
Which one of the following, if true, most weakens the argument?
Maintaining the temperature of your hands is far less important, physiologically, than maintaining the temperature of your torso.
Several layers of light garments will keep one's vital organs warmer than will one or two heavy garments.
Wearing an extra layer of clothing will not keep one's hands warm at temperatures low enough to cause frostbite.
Keeping one's hands warm by putting on an extra layer of clothing is less effective than turning up the heat.
The physical effort required to put on an extra layer of clothing does not stimulate circulation enough to warm your hands.
Explanations
What a bad argument, eh?
The author concludes that we never need gloves or mittens to keep our hands warm in winter. It turns out to be a weaken question, so it should be pretty easy to spot.
Since the author made such a heavy-handed claim, anything that makes it even a little bit more necessary to wear gloves / mittens will work.
Let's go find it.
Nah, this doesn't weaken the idea that we never need gloves or mittens. If anything, it slightly strengthens it.
No way. This is irrelevant to our author's conclusion. If it doesn't impact the conclusion, it's not our answer.
This works. If this is true, then there may be times (when it's cold enough to cause frostbite) where we still need gloves or mittens, even after adding a separate layer of clothing to warm our hands.
Nope. This might be true, but it doesn't affect our author's conclusion, so we can't pick it.
Nah. This focuses on the wrong thing. Our author never alludes to the activity of clothing oneself as the source of sufficient heat to warm one's hands. Can't pick this.
0 Comments