Question

Read the passage. in federal drug administration clinical trials, people who added a particular drug to diet and exercise were able to lose weight, as well as lower their blood pressure. this drug was evaluated in two clinical studies involving overweight adults with high blood pressure. the results of the trials showed that 48 percent of people taking this drug lost some of their body weight. the other group in this trial consisted of people who were not taking this medicine, and only 23 percent of them lost some weight. what is the claim? exercise and diet help people lose more weight than with the aid of this drug. this drug helps people lose more weight than diet and exercise alone. overweight adults have always had high blood pressure. this drug won’t help people lower their blood pressure if they already exercise.

Answer 1

Answer: b

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Answer 2

The claim in this passage is that this drug helps people lose more weight than diet and exercise alone. This is supported by the results of the clinical trials, which show that 48 percent of people taking the drug lost some weight, while only 23 percent of people not taking the drug lost weight. There is no mention in the passage of exercise and diet helping people lose more weight than the drug, of overweight adults always having high blood pressure, or of the drug not helping people lower their blood pressure if they already exercise.