Logic Breakdown

Passage Summary: If a fitness coach smokes, they clearly don't care about their own body, which means they won't care about yours, making them useless for your health goals.

Conclusion: Fitness consultants who smoke are incapable of helping their clients improve their health.

Reasoning: Smoking indicates a lack of care for one's own health, which implies a lack of care for a client's health, which in turn prevents a consultant from being helpful.

Analysis: This argument relies on a chain of conditional logic: Smoking → No self-care → No client-care → No help. To make this conclusion follow logically, we need to ensure every link in that chain is solid. The most vulnerable link is the very first one, where the author assumes that the act of smoking automatically proves a lack of care for one's health. Look for an answer that bridges this gap by stating that anyone who smokes does not care about their health.

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21.

The conclusion follows logically if which one of the following is assumed?

Correct Answer
E
E states that anyone who cares about their own health does not smoke. Its contrapositive is that if someone smokes, they do not care about their own health. That supplies the missing first link: smoke -> not care own health -> not care clients’ health -> cannot help clients, making the conclusion follow.
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