Solutions - XAT L

XAT L  

2  C  best strategy.

1) evaluate each sentence of the stimulus

kitchen magazine plans to license the use of its name by a line of cookware.

a fact

For a magazine, licensing the use of its name for products involves some danger, since if the products disappoint consumers, the magazine's reputation suffers, with consequent reductions in circulation and advertising.

a possible setback of this strategy

However, experts have evaluated the cookware and found it superior to all other cookware advertised in Kitchen.T herefore, Kitchen can collect its licensing fee without endangering its other revenues.

shift in the argument and consequentely consclusion

this is the part that the assumption is related and is the key part of the entire argument

A. No other line of cookware is superior to that which will carry the Kitchen name. 

too extreme: no other line and also a comparison. not related to something that permits to collect fee without endagering the company

B. Kitchen will not license the use of its name for any products other than the line of cookware. 

other than something..........not related

C. Makers of cookware will not find Kitchen a less attractive advertising vehicle because the magazine's name is associated with a competing product. 

Bingo. if the makers FIND the kitchen magazine less attractive, we have less fees and the company is endagered by the magazine. this assumption defends the argument. so is perfect

D. Consumers who are not regular readers of Kitchen magazine will be attracted to the cookware by the Kitchen name. 

what the reader do is not related to our fee

E. Kitchen is one of the most prestigious cooking-related magazines. 

wheter the magazine is well regognized or not is not related

3  D

 players today play with the same style as was used long ago, but not because it's simply the best style for tennis; instead, players today play this way, because this is what they learned from their coaches, who themselves were tennis players back in the day. The similarity is due to the teacher-student influence, not anything about the inherent value of the playing style itself.

4 D

(A)The questions asked of the entrepreneurs and business managers included personal, political, and business questions. 

Out of scope.

(B)At least some of the entrepreneurs surveyed had accurately determined before attempting to start their businesses what the odds were against their attempts being successful.

Irrelevant

(C)Another survey showed that degree of confidence was highly correlated with success in business.

Out of Scope

(D)The business managers who were most overconfident were found to have attempted to start businesses in the past.

Supports the Conclusion - Can be a probable contender

(E)How confident each person surveyed was that his or her answers to the questions asked were correct corresponded closely to that person’s confidence in his or her business acumen.

Wordy

Thus (D) seems to be better than the others ...

5

E

Fact: 100Calories packs cost more per ounce-than traditionally sized portions.
Fact: Consumers have been purchasing 100Calories pack with greater and greater frequency.

Explanation 1: Consumers are willing to pay more to avoid having to measure out their portions. ==> convenience is 1st priority.

Explanation 2: 100Calories pack represents the smallest portion that still looks and feels "substantial" enough to appeal to dieters who lack the self control to limit their consumption of snacks from larger packages. ==> Because 100C pack is large enough so even if it stands alone, it still attracts dieters. However, if 100c pack stands beside a LARGER sized portion, dieters will ignore the smaller one and pick up the bigger one.

A. Consumers are willing to pay exactly the same price for 100-calorie packs sold in vending machine as for traditionally sized snack portions sold in vending machine.
Wrong. Out of scope.

B. A large number of buyers of 100-calorie packs consume them as light desserts after large meals that have left them feeling too full for traditionally sized snack food.
Wrong. Out of scope.

C. Although the 100-calorie packs have begun to sell well across a large variety of demographics, busy young professionals were the first group to purchase them frequently.
Wrong. Good shell game. It maybe fits the first explanation, but It's wrong because "the first group to purchase" does not mean busy young professionals will keep their habit. They are just the group of people who always try "NEW stuffs" more frequently than other group of people. 

D. Because the 100-calorie packs require more packaging per ounce of food than the traditionally sized portions do, manufacturers must charge more per ounce to make the same relative profit as on traditionally sized portions.
Wrong. Out of scope.

E. Sales of 100-calorie packs have been uniformly poor at stores where they are displayed alongside traditionally sized portions, even for the same snacks whose 100-calorie packs are bestsellers at other stores.
Correct. Because 100C pack is large enough so even if it stands alone, it still attracts dieters. ==> If 100c pack stands beside LARGERsized portion, dieters will ignore 100c pack. ==> E also undermines the 2nd explanation because if convenience is priority, customers should ignore the large sized portions to pick up the smaller sized packs.

6  A

Something that is supported by the argument is an inference. 

This question is an inference question. Therefore the task is to find an inevitable conclusion from information given. Find what must be true.

Read the Argument and Extract Necessary Information: 

In inference questions: 

Note how specific the topics are, watch out for percents versus numbers, look for the logical combination of two points. 

Known:
Lefties have an advantage on tasks controlled by the right side of the brain
Painting is controlled by the right side of the brain
Lefties get viruses more frequently

Formulate an Answer to the Question
There are 2 possible answers that should spring to mind based on the facts presented: 

1. Lefties have advantage on right brain functions + painting is right brain function = lefties have advantage in painting. 

2. Lefties contract viruses more frequently + lefties have advantage in right brain functions + painting is right brain function = people with advantage painting contract viruses more frequently. 

Eliminate Answer Choices:
(A) Close in to what we said- Keep.

(B) Not true we know lefties contract more often but what if there are significantly fewer lefties in the world? If that is the case than most who contract would be righty but lefties might still contract more often, thus this does not have to be true – eliminate.

(C) The argument gives no indication that there is a cause and effect link between contracting viruses and painting, thus this does not have to be true – eliminate.

(D) The argument makes no mention of the sub group "left-handed painters". You are told that lefties in general contract viruses more often but not whether left-handed painters do so more often than other left-handers or other sub-groups of lefties, thus this does not have to be true – eliminate. 

(E) The argument gives no information about non-painters, thus this does not have to be true – eliminate.