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GMAT????????????????1 ANALYSIS OF AN ARGUMENT Time-30 minutes Directions: In this section you will be asked to write a critique of the argument presented below. Note that you are not being asked to present your own views on the subject. Instead you may need to consider what questionable assumptions underlie the thinking what alternative explanations or counterexamples might weaken the conclusion or what sort of evidence could help strengthen or refute the argument. ????????Read the argument and the instructions that follow it and then make any notes in your test booklet that will help you plan your response. Begin writing your response on the separate answer document. Make sure that you use the answer document that goes with this writing task. ????????The following appeared in a magazine article on trends and lifestyles. ????????quotIn gencral people are not as conccmed as they were a decade ago about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses. Walk into the Hcarts Dclight a store that started sclling organic fruits and vegctables and wholegrain flours in the 1960s and you will also find a wide selcction of checses made with high butterfat content. Next door the owners of the Good Earth Cafe an old vegctarian restaurant are still making a modest living but the owners of the new House of Beef across the strect are millionaires.quot ????????Discuss how well reasoned you find this argument. In your discussion be sure to analyze the line of reasoning and the use of cvidence in the argument. You can also discuss what if anything would make the argument more sound and persuasive or would help you better evaluate its conelusion. ANALYSIS OF AN ISSUE Time-30 minutes Directions: In this section you will need to analyze the issue presented below and explain your views on it. The question has no quotcorrectquot answer. Instead you should consider various perspetives as you develop your own position on the issue. ????????Read the statcment and the instructions that f