No, the correct answer is (A).....does anybody have any explaination regarding it
@Montaqes B, D, E can be ruled out as they dont give any relevant information. As per the sentence in paragraph - "Parasitic wasps lay their eggs directly into the eggs of various host insects in exactly the right numbers for any suitable size of host egg. If they laid too many eggs in a host egg".
I earlier just looked at 'right numbers' and chosen option C which also points towards the right numbers but overlooked this portion - 'a host egg' which makes the correct option as A.
As a genre, hip-hop is vastly underrated. While critics are right to question the violent and sometimesracist content of many hip-hop lyrics, the genre as a wholeshould not be dismissed as worthless just because portions of its subgenre are potentially offensive or sub-par. The whole should never be judged by just one of its parts.
The bolded phrases play which of the following roles in the passage above?
a) The first phrase contains a premise supporting the author's conclusion, and second phrase contradicts that conclusion. b) The first phrase is a reply to an argument, and the second phrase is the author's conclusion. c) The first phrase is the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contains support for a premise. d) The first phraseis an analogy supporting a premise, and second phrase is that premise. e) The first phrase is an opinion, while the second phrase contains an related conclusion.
As a genre, hip-hop is vastly underrated. While critics are right to question the violent and sometimesracist content of many hip-hop lyrics, the genre as a wholeshould not be dismissed as worthless just because portions of its subgenre are potentially offensive or sub-par. The whole should never be judged by just one of its parts.
The bolded phrases play which of the following roles in the passage above?
a) The first phrase contains a premise supporting the author's conclusion, and second phrase contradicts that conclusion. b) The first phrase is a reply to an argument, and the second phrase is the author's conclusion. c) The first phrase is the author's conclusion, and the second phrase contains support for a premise. d) The first phraseis an analogy supporting a premise, and second phrase is that premise. e) The first phrase is an opinion, while the second phrase contains an related conclusion.
Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district. The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activists reasoning? A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns? B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville? C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period? D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn form Morganville? E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?
my pick is second option. OA given is different. so if u have some different choice, plz explain.
Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district. The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activists reasoning? A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns? B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville? C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period? D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn form Morganville? E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?
my pick is second option. OA given is different. so if u have some different choice, plz explain.
Hi Anish,
I think, answer to this shud be (E).
Though option B appears to be a very plausible answer, it doesn't not attempt to evaluate the reasoning that if "central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount ". local shopping district can remain healthy even with a small percentage of residents shoppping in its shops. we should only be concerned abt this small percentage of residents!
e) author reasons that SaveAll stores have always caused increased banckrupties in their first five years of operation. But what if the cause of those bankrupties was something else and not SaveAll store. Therefore, it is needed to know whether the SaveAll store also lost money in first five year of its operation or not. If it has also lost money in first five years than somethingels shud be the cause of bankrupties and the authors reasoning wud turned out to be flawed.
The OA for this is (C)....i also marked it as (E) but now i think (C) makes more sense :huh:....
Author said that hip-hop is highly underrated and than gave the reasons in support of this statement. He said that critics are right with respect to offensive language and comments but are wrong to UNDERRATE whole hip-hop genre by using some worthless subgenre hip-hop as a representative of whole hip-hop genre. Therefore, first BOLD phrase is indeed the author's conclusion. And second phrase supports the premises that the author used to support her conclusion
Though option B appears to be a very plausible answer, it doesn't not attempt to evaluate the reasoning that if "central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount ". local shopping district can remain healthy even with a small percentage of residents shoppping in its shops. we should only be concerned abt this small percentage of residents!
e) author reasons that SaveAll stores have always caused increased banckrupties in their first five years of operation. But what if the cause of those bankrupties was something else and not SaveAll store. Therefore, it is needed to know whether the SaveAll store also lost money in first five year of its operation or not. If it has also lost money in first five years than somethingels shud be the cause of bankrupties and the authors reasoning wud turned out to be flawed.
Let me know if i m right
I think (E) also doesn't help evaluating the argument. Secondly, it is written that "wherever" SaveAll has opened a store...so it means there's no instance of it losing money.
But, just now it struck me that answer should be (C) bcoz the argument talks abt markets not healthy markets. and that's the OA too 😃
The OA for this is (C)....i also marked it as (E) but now i think (C) makes more sense :huh:....
Author said that hip-hop is highly underrated and than gave the reasons in support of this statement. He said that critics are right with respect to offensive language and comments but are wrong to UNDERRATE whole hip-hop genre by using some worthless subgenre hip-hop as a representative of whole hip-hop genre. Therefore, first BOLD phrase is indeed the author's conclusion. And second phrase supports the premises that the author used to support her conclusion
Montaques, if we say first statement is the conclusion then I think, it's wrong to say that author is using the 2nd bold statement as a premise to support that conclusion. Because it is actually against that conclusion.
I think (E) also doesn't help evaluating the argument. Secondly, it is written that "wherever" SaveAll has opened a store...so it means there's no instance of it losing money.
But, just now it struck me that answer should be (C) bcoz the argument talks abt markets not healthy markets. and that's the OA too :)
yup..u r right Anish...answer shud be (C) only:-o.... where did u get this ques from...i think this is one of the most tricky questions i have come across...
yup..u r right Anish...answer shud be (C) only:-o.... where did u get this ques from...i think this is one of the most tricky questions i have come across...
Montaques, if we say first statement is the conclusion then I think, it's wrong to say that author is using the 2nd bold statement as a premise to support that conclusion. Because it is actually against that conclusion.
Anish, author said that hip-hop is uselessly underrated. In other words, he is of the opnion that hip-hop deserves more recognition than it is currently recieving, because " the whole should never be judged by just one of its parts" ...
Community activist: If Morganville wants to keep its central shopping district healthy, it should prevent the opening of a huge SaveAll discount department store on the outskirts of Morganville. Records from other small towns show that whenever SaveAll has opened a store outside the central shopping district of a small town, within five years the town has experienced the bankruptcies of more than a quarter of the stores in the shopping district. The answer to which of the following would be most useful for evaluating the community activists reasoning? A. Have community activists in other towns successfully campaigned against the opening of a SaveAll store on the outskirts of their towns? B. Do a large percentage of the residents of Morganville currently do almost all of their shopping at stores in Morganville? C. In towns with healthy central shopping districts, what proportion of the stores in those districts suffer bankruptcy during a typical five-year period? D. What proportion of the employees at the SaveAll store on the outskirts of Morganville will be drawn form Morganville? E. Do newly opened SaveAll stores ever lose money during their first five years of operation?
my pick is second option. OA given is different. so if u have some different choice, plz explain.
The activist reasoning is based on stores becoming bankrupt in a 5 year period when discount store is introduced. Here we need to find out what if present helps us in evaluating the activist's reason. We don't have to prove this reasoning is flawed We know from the facts the activist provides that stores have gone bankrupt in other towns when discount store is introduced so to evaluate this we need to find out what is the case in the same 5 year period when the discount store is not there If stores go bankrupt anyway then the activist's reason is flawed. If thats not the case the activist's reason is strengthened. Either way we can evaluate the argument properly A. Successful campaign doesn't help in anyway. Irrelevant B. Even if they don't do the shopping others from a nearby town may do at the end we want data about sales of the stores and how the trend in then going bankrupt is. This doesn't help C.Correct. D.Irrelevant E. Whether the discount store loses money or not doesn't help us in evaluating the trend cited by the activist about other stores.
The activist reasoning is based on stores becoming bankrupt in a 5 year period when discount store is introduced. Here we need to find out what if present helps us in evaluating the activist's reason. We don't have to prove this reasoning is flawed We know from the facts the activist provides that stores have gone bankrupt in other towns when discount store is introduced so to evaluate this we need to find out what is the case in the same 5 year period when the discount store is not there If stores go bankrupt anyway then the activist's reason is flawed. If thats not the case the activist's reason is strengthened. Either way we can evaluate the argument properly A. Successful campaign doesn't help in anyway. Irrelevant B. Even if they don't do the shopping others from a nearby town may do at the end we want data about sales of the stores and how the trend in then going bankrupt is. This doesn't help C.Correct. D.Irrelevant E. Whether the discount store loses money or not doesn't help us in evaluating the trend cited by the activist about other stores.
1. After the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour was imposed in 1974, the number of deaths per mile driven on a highway fell abruptly as a result. Since then, however, the average speed of vehicles on highways has risen, but the number of deaths per mile driven on a highway has continued to fall. Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above? (A) The speed limit alone is probably not responsible for the continued reduction in highway deaths in the years after 1974. (B) People have been driving less since 1974. (C) Driver-education courses have been more effective since 1974 in teaching drivers to drive safely. (D) In recent years highway patrols have been less effective in catching drivers who speed. (E) The change in the speed limit cannot be responsible for the abrupt decline in highway deaths in 1974.
:sarcasm:2.Reviewing historical data, medical researchers in California found that counties with the largest number of television sets per capita have had the lowest incidence of a serious brain disease, mosquito-borne encephalitis. The researchers have concluded that people in these counties stay indoors more and thus avoid exposure to the disease. The researchers conclusion would be most strengthened if which of the following were true? (A) Programs designed to control the size of disease-bearing mosquito populations have not affected the incidence of mosquito- borne encephalitis. (B) The occupations of county residents affect their risk of exposure to mosquito-borne encephalitis more than does television-watching. (C) The incidence of mosquito-borne encephalitis in counties with the largest number of television sets per capita is likely to decrease even further. (D) The more time people in a county spend outdoors, the greater their awareness of the dangers of mosquito-borne encephalitis. (E) The more television sets there are per capita in a county, the more time the average county resident spends watching television.
3.Teenagers are often priced out of the labor market by the government-mandated minimum-wage level because employers cannot afford to pay that much for extra help. Therefore, if Congress institutes a subminimum wage, a new lower legal wage for teenagers, the teenage unemployment rate, which has been rising since 1960, will no longer increase. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above? (A) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen when the minimum wage has risen. (B) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen even when the minimum wage remained constant. (C) Employers often hire extra help during holiday and warm weather seasons. (D) The teenage unemployment rate rose more quickly in the 1970s than it did in the 1960s. (E) The teenage unemployment rate has occasionally declined in the years since 1960.
4.Mr. Primm: If hospitals were private enterprises, dependent on profits for their survival, there would be no teaching hospitals, because of the intrinsically high cost of running such hospitals. Ms. Nakai: I disagree. The medical challenges provided by teaching hospitals attract the very best physicians. This, in turn, enables those hospitals to concentrate on nonroutine cases. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen Ms. Nakais attempt to refute Mr. Primms claim? (A) Doctors at teaching hospitals command high salaries. (B) Sophisticated, nonroutine medical care commands a high price. (C) Existing teaching hospitals derive some revenue from public subsidies. (D) The patient mortality rate at teaching hospitals is high. (E) The modern trend among physicians is to become highly specialized.
6.Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above? (A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes. (B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features. (C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product. (D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them. (E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail.
During the Second World War, about 375,000 civilians died in the United States and about 408,000 members of the United States armed forces died overseas. On the basis of those figures, it can be concluded that it was not much more dangerous to be overseas in the armed forces during the Second World War than it was to stay at home as a civilian.
Which of the following would reveal most clearly the absurdity of the conclusion drawn above?
(A) Counting deaths among members of the armed forces who served in the United States in addition to deaths among members of the armed forces serving overseas (B) Expressing the difference between the numbers of deaths among civilians and members of the armed forces as a percentage of the total number of deaths (C) Separating deaths caused by accidents during service in the armed forces from deaths caused by combat injuries (D) Comparing death rates per thousand members of each group rather than comparing total numbers of deaths (E) Comparing deaths caused by accidents in the United States to deaths caused by combat in the armed forces
Can anyone plz tell me why the Answer is (D)?! I thought the answer should be (E)....Thanks a lot!
1. After the national speed limit of 55 miles per hour was imposed in 1974, the number of deaths per mile driven on a highway fell abruptly as a result. Since then, however, the average speed of vehicles on highways has risen, but the number of deaths per mile driven on a highway has continued to fall. Which of the following conclusions can be properly drawn from the statements above? (A) The speed limit alone is probably not responsible for the continued reduction in highway deaths in the years after 1974. (B) People have been driving less since 1974. (C) Driver-education courses have been more effective since 1974 in teaching drivers to drive safely. (D) In recent years highway patrols have been less effective in catching drivers who speed. (E) The change in the speed limit cannot be responsible for the abrupt decline in highway deaths in 1974.
:sarcasm:2.Reviewing historical data, medical researchers in California found that counties with the largest number of television sets per capita have had the lowest incidence of a serious brain disease, mosquito-borne encephalitis. The researchers have concluded that people in these counties stay indoors more and thus avoid exposure to the disease. The researchers conclusion would be most strengthened if which of the following were true? (A) Programs designed to control the size of disease-bearing mosquito populations have not affected the incidence of mosquito- borne encephalitis. (B) The occupations of county residents affect their risk of exposure to mosquito-borne encephalitis more than does television-watching. (C) The incidence of mosquito-borne encephalitis in counties with the largest number of television sets per capita is likely to decrease even further. (D) The more time people in a county spend outdoors, the greater their awareness of the dangers of mosquito-borne encephalitis. (E) The more television sets there are per capita in a county, the more time the average county resident spends watching television.
3.Teenagers are often priced out of the labor market by the government-mandated minimum-wage level because employers cannot afford to pay that much for extra help. Therefore, if Congress institutes a subminimum wage, a new lower legal wage for teenagers, the teenage unemployment rate, which has been rising since 1960, will no longer increase. Which of the following, if true, would most weaken the argument above? (A) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen when the minimum wage has risen. (B) Since 1960 the teenage unemployment rate has risen even when the minimum wage remained constant. (C) Employers often hire extra help during holiday and warm weather seasons. (D) The teenage unemployment rate rose more quickly in the 1970s than it did in the 1960s. (E) The teenage unemployment rate has occasionally declined in the years since 1960.
4.Mr. Primm: If hospitals were private enterprises, dependent on profits for their survival, there would be no teaching hospitals, because of the intrinsically high cost of running such hospitals. Ms. Nakai: I disagree. The medical challenges provided by teaching hospitals attract the very best physicians. This, in turn, enables those hospitals to concentrate on nonroutine cases. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen Ms. Nakais attempt to refute Mr. Primms claim? (A) Doctors at teaching hospitals command high salaries. (B) Sophisticated, nonroutine medical care commands a high price. (C) Existing teaching hospitals derive some revenue from public subsidies. (D) The patient mortality rate at teaching hospitals is high. (E) The modern trend among physicians is to become highly specialized.
6.Six months or so after getting a video recorder, many early buyers apparently lost interest in obtaining videos to watch on it. The trade of businesses selling and renting videos is still buoyant, because the number of homes with video recorders is still growing. But clearly, once the market for video recorders is saturated, businesses distributing videos face hard times. Which of the following, if true, would most seriously weaken the conclusion above? (A) The market for video recorders would not be considered saturated until there was one in 80 percent of homes. (B) Among the items handled by video distributors are many films specifically produced as video features. (C) Few of the early buyers of video recorders raised any complaints about performance aspects of the new product. (D) The early buyers of a novel product are always people who are quick to acquire novelties, but also often as quick to tire of them. (E) In a shrinking market, competition always intensifies and marginal businesses fail.
1) speed limit and average death are mentioned but there is no data linking speed with death. A. Possible B.Out of scope. Nothing is mentioned with respect to number of people driving so this cannot be the conclusion C.Out of scope D.Out of scope E.We cannot rule out the role of speed limit outright. This is a possibility. I think A is correct. 2)Countries with no of sets per capita is mentioned and cause of avoiding disease is attributed to staying indoors so authors view would be supported if people with TV sets stay indoor to watch TV (relationship between staying indoor and TV sets per capita should be established) So I think E is the answer 3)Author states teenage unemployment rate will cease to rise if minimum wage is lowered. To weaken this we have to prove minimum wage has no effect on unemployment rate. A.Supports the argument. B. correct if unemployment rate keeps on rising when minimum wage is constant then this weakens the conclusion C.Irrelevant D.Irrelevant E. occasional occurrence cannot be used to generalists so that the argument is weakened 4) I think the answer is B. If non-routine cares cost high then teaching hospitals gain high and can sustain. So it supports the argument. A.Doesn't support B.correct C.Some revenue may not be sufficient D.Irrelevant E. Doesn't help to say teaching hospitals can sustain themselves
6) The conclusion is based on the preference of early buyers so it is weakened if we can establish that early buyers do not necessarily represent the sample space Only D does this.I think the answer is D
During the Second World War, about 375,000 civilians died in the United States and about 408,000 members of the United States armed forces died overseas. On the basis of those figures, it can be concluded that it was not much more dangerous to be overseas in the armed forces during the Second World War than it was to stay at home as a civilian.
Which of the following would reveal most clearly the absurdity of the conclusion drawn above?
(A) Counting deaths among members of the armed forces who served in the United States in addition to deaths among members of the armed forces serving overseas (B) Expressing the difference between the numbers of deaths among civilians and members of the armed forces as a percentage of the total number of deaths (C) Separating deaths caused by accidents during service in the armed forces from deaths caused by combat injuries (D) Comparing death rates per thousand members of each group rather than comparing total numbers of deaths (E) Comparing deaths caused by accidents in the United States to deaths caused by combat in the armed forces
Can anyone plz tell me why the Answer is (D)?! I thought the answer should be (E)....Thanks a lot!
The total deaths are mentioned . For the conclusion about people in army and civilians at home to be logically number deaths out a total number of people in army and that out of total number of civilians has to be compared something like if 20 (among 50 army men) die and 30 (among 100 civilians) die then we cannot say being in army and being at home is more or less equally dangerous. Number of deaths per thousand( or per hundred or per ten etc) gives the correct basis for comparison so D has to be the answer E is not correct because accidents are isolated cases death to civilians can occur in variety of other ways so this cannot in anyway point out the absurdity in the argument as the argument talks about deaths in total.
1) speed limit and average death are mentioned but there is no data linking speed with death. A. Possible B.Out of scope. Nothing is mentioned with respect to number of people driving so this cannot be the conclusion C.Out of scope D.Out of scope E.We cannot rule out the role of speed limit outright. This is a possibility. I think A is correct. 2)Countries with no of sets per capita is mentioned and cause of avoiding disease is attributed to staying indoors so authors view would be supported if people with TV sets stay indoor to watch TV (relationship between staying indoor and TV sets per capita should be established) So I think E is the answer 3)Author states teenage unemployment rate will cease to rise if minimum wage is lowered. To weaken this we have to prove minimum wage has no effect on unemployment rate. A.Supports the argument. B. correct if unemployment rate keeps on rising when minimum wage is constant then this weakens the conclusion C.Irrelevant D.Irrelevant E. occasional occurrence cannot be used to generalists so that the argument is weakened 4) I think the answer is B. If non-routine cares cost high then teaching hospitals gain high and can sustain. So it supports the argument. A.Doesn't support B.correct C.Some revenue may not be sufficient D.Irrelevant E. Doesn't help to say teaching hospitals can sustain themselves
6) The conclusion is based on the preference of early buyers so it is weakened if we can establish that early buyers do not necessarily represent the sample space Only D does this.I think the answer is D
Thank u Siva, perfect explanation and perfect answers.
