[vikas.mogle]

Originally Posted by SUPERNUT

I think answer is option 2, During Verdant's term taxes were reduced...it means he has less money for budget compared to the governer before him.

conclusion drawn: During Gov. Vedant's term, state pending has been reduced because of 'astere budgets'

now to weaken this conclusion you need find a flaw in the argument. it could be done by proving that state spending has increased or it has not reduced during his tenure or there were other reasons for 'low average increase in spending during Vedant's tenure' as claimed in first argument.

1. Inflation has nothing to do with the state spending.
2. 'Tax rates are lowered' during Vedant's term in office supports the conclusion. Since taxes are lowered when state budget is low.
3. this clearly says that there was some degree of increase in budget each year. (but still doesn't counter the arguement that state spending was reduced)
4. this suggests that state has stopped spending or begun charging citizens for NUMEROUS services which earlier were offered free. Now citizens themselves are paying for the services that indirectly means state spending has actually not reduced but only burden is directed at citizens.
5. This again hints to support the conclusion.

So I would choose 4.

[sharat_chandran]

Originally Posted by gk5814

Can someone pls help me with following question?


Partly because of bad weather, but also partly because some major pepper growers have switched to high-priced cocoa, world production of pepper has been running well below worldwide sales for three years. Pepper is consequently in relatively short supply. The price of pepper has soared in response: it now equals that of cocoa.

Which of the following can be inferred from the passage?
(A) Pepper is a profitable crop only if it is grown on a large scale.
(B) World consumption of pepper has been unusually high for three years.
(C) World production of pepper will return to previous levels once normal weather returns.
(D) Surplus stocks of pepper have been reduced in the past three years.
(E) The profits that the growers of pepper have made in the past three years have been unprecedented.

Well the passage states that since the world production has been running low , pepper is consequently in low supply. Since sales are greater than production (acc to the passage), the only way this demand was met was through the excess(surplus) stock that was available . Over the past 3 years the excess stock is getting depleted because of again sales being greater than production. Hence option D.

E cannot be the answer because the passage says that the price of pepper has soared but there is nothing to signify that the profits have been unprecedented. Because in these past 3 years the bad climate would have reduced the amount of pepper that actually got produced and hence nullifying the effect of high prices and thereby neutralizing the profits

[vikas.mogle]

Originally Posted by sharat_chandran

Well the passage states that since the world production has been running low , pepper is consequently in low supply. Since sales are greater than production (acc to the passage), the only way this demand was met was through the excess(surplus) stock that was available . Over the past 3 years the excess stock is getting depleted because of again sales being greater than production. Hence option D.

E cannot be the answer because the passage says that the price of pepper has soared but there is nothing to signify that the profits have been unprecedented. Because in these past 3 years the bad climate would have reduced the amount of pepper that actually got produced and hence nullifying the effect of high prices and thereby neutralizing the profits

Bingo !! This is correct explanation.

[ArchRao]

hey, i need help with these

1)Every painting hanging in the Hoular Gallery is by a French painter. No painting in the Hoular Gallery is by a Vorticist. Only Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true?
(A) No French painters are Vorticists.
(B) All Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(C) Some French painters do not use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(D) No French painters use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(E) All French painters who use acrylics use acrylic monochromes in their works.

I went for option A, since no painting in the gallery is Vorticist, and all paintings are by french painters. But the OA is C! can someone explain

2)Gloria: Those who advocate tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend private schools maintain that people making no use of a government service should not be forced to pay for it. Yet those who choose to buy bottled water rather than drink water from the local supply are not therefore exempt from paying taxes to maintain the local water supply.
Roger: Your argument is illogical. Children are required by law to attend school. Since school attendance is a matter not of choice, but of legal requirement, it is unfair for the government to force some parents to pay for it twice.
Which of the following responses by Gloria would best refute Roger’s charge that her argument is illogical?
(A) Although drinking water is not required by law, it is necessary for all people, and therefore my analogy is appropriate.
(B) Those who can afford the tuition at a high-priced private school can well bear the same tax burden as those whose children attend public schools.
(C) If tuition tax credits are granted, the tax burden on parents who choose public schools will rise to an intolerable level.
(D) The law does not say that parents must send their children to private schools, only that the children must attend some kind of school, whether public or private.
(E) Both bottled water and private schools are luxury items, and it is unfair that some citizens should be able to afford them while others cannot.

[atul.m]

Originally Posted by atul.m

My $0.02

Ans 2

Option1 - passage doesnt talk about efficiency in working
Option3- Survival in darkness???
Option-4 - Close and tempting - but passage talks about what improves inherited illness
Option 5- Again out of scope.

Whats the OA and the source??

Cheers,
Atul

@Vipin,
Please post the OA ... I would suggest that you post OA along with the answers or else its of no use just posting the questions.

Thank you,
Atul M

[SUPERNUT]

Originally Posted by ArchRao

hey, i need help with these

1)Every painting hanging in the Hoular Gallery is by a French painter. No painting in the Hoular Gallery is by a Vorticist. Only Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true?
(A) No French painters are Vorticists.
(B) All Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(C) Some French painters do not use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(D) No French painters use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(E) All French painters who use acrylics use acrylic monochromes in their works.

I went for option A, since no painting in the gallery is Vorticist, and all paintings are by french painters. But the OA is C! can someone explain

2)Gloria: Those who advocate tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend private schools maintain that people making no use of a government service should not be forced to pay for it. Yet those who choose to buy bottled water rather than drink water from the local supply are not therefore exempt from paying taxes to maintain the local water supply.
Roger: Your argument is illogical. Children are required by law to attend school. Since school attendance is a matter not of choice, but of legal requirement, it is unfair for the government to force some parents to pay for it twice.
Which of the following responses by Gloria would best refute Roger’s charge that her argument is illogical?
(A) Although drinking water is not required by law, it is necessary for all people, and therefore my analogy is appropriate.
(B) Those who can afford the tuition at a high-priced private school can well bear the same tax burden as those whose children attend public schools.
(C) If tuition tax credits are granted, the tax burden on parents who choose public schools will rise to an intolerable level.
(D) The law does not say that parents must send their children to private schools, only that the children must attend some kind of school, whether public or private.
(E) Both bottled water and private schools are luxury items, and it is unfair that some citizens should be able to afford them while others cannot.

1).Every painting hanging in the Hoular Gallery is by a French painter-------Paintings in Houller gallery are french( Not all french paintings are in Houller).
No painting in the Hoular Gallery is by a Vorticist-------------( so based on Houler gallery data we cannot say that there is no french Vorticist)
Only Vorticists use acrylic monchromes-----------( doesnt mean Vorticist dont use other forms).

I couldn't right away choose C as answer but i could eliminated A,B,D,E based on above logic. Only with Option C i had no logical conclusion...so i went with C


2) Is Option D answer for this.

[vikas.mogle]

Originally Posted by ArchRao

hey, i need help with these

1)Every painting hanging in the Hoular Gallery is by a French painter. No painting in the Hoular Gallery is by a Vorticist. Only Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
If the information above is true, which of the following must also be true?
(A) No French painters are Vorticists.
(B) All Vorticists use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(C) Some French painters do not use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(D) No French painters use acrylic monochromes in their works.
(E) All French painters who use acrylics use acrylic monochromes in their works.

I went for option A, since no painting in the gallery is Vorticist, and all paintings are by french painters. But the OA is C! can someone explain

2)Gloria: Those who advocate tuition tax credits for parents whose children attend private schools maintain that people making no use of a government service should not be forced to pay for it. Yet those who choose to buy bottled water rather than drink water from the local supply are not therefore exempt from paying taxes to maintain the local water supply.
Roger: Your argument is illogical. Children are required by law to attend school. Since school attendance is a matter not of choice, but of legal requirement, it is unfair for the government to force some parents to pay for it twice.
Which of the following responses by Gloria would best refute Roger’s charge that her argument is illogical?
(A) Although drinking water is not required by law, it is necessary for all people, and therefore my analogy is appropriate.
(B) Those who can afford the tuition at a high-priced private school can well bear the same tax burden as those whose children attend public schools.
(C) If tuition tax credits are granted, the tax burden on parents who choose public schools will rise to an intolerable level.
(D) The law does not say that parents must send their children to private schools, only that the children must attend some kind of school, whether public or private.
(E) Both bottled water and private schools are luxury items, and it is unfair that some citizens should be able to afford them while others cannot.

1. C
2. D

In 1, it says every painting in the gallery is by a French painter. There could be some french painters who are vorticists but their painting is not there in the Gallery. (because they are vorticists)

2. Roger's argument is the key here. he says "law requires children to attent school". Law doesn't state what kinda of school. It's open to individual choice whether to go to private school or public one.

[vikas130678]

Originally Posted by vikas.mogle

Guys,

Try these:

1. Johnson is on firm ground when he asserts that the early editors of Dickinson’s poetry often distorted her intentions. Yet Johnson’s own, more faithful, text is still guilty of its own forms of distortion. To standardize Dickinson’s often indecipherable handwritten punctuation by the use of the dash is to render permanent a casual mode of poetic phrasing that Dickinson surely never expected to see in print. It implies that Dickinson chose the dash as her typical mark of punctuation when, in fact, she apparently never made any definitive choice at all.
Which of the following best summarizes the author’s main point?
(A) Although Johnson is right in criticizing Dickinson’s early editors for their distortion of her work, his own text is guilty of equally serious distortions.
(B) Johnson’s use of the dash in his text of Dickinson’s poetry misleads readers about the poet’s intentions.
(C) Because Dickinson never expected her poetry to be published, virtually any attempt at editing it must run counter to her intentions.
(D) Although Johnson’s attempt to produce a more faithful text of Dickinson’s poetry is well-meaning, his study of the material lacks sufficient thoroughness.
(E) Dickinson’s editors, including Johnson, have failed to deal adequately with the problem of deciphering Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts.

2. If A, then B.
If B, then C.
If C, then D.
If all of the statements above are true, which of the following must also be true?
(A) If D, then A.
(B) If not B, then not C.
(C) If not D, then not A.
(D) If D, then E.
(E) If not A, then not D.

3.As one who has always believed that truth is our nation’s surest weapon in the propaganda war against our foes, I am distressed by reports of “disinformation” campaigns by American intelligence agents in Western Europe. In a disinformation campaign, untruths are disseminated through gullible local journalists in order to damage the interests of our enemies and protect our own. Those who defend this practice say that lying is necessary to counter Soviet disinformation campaigns aimed at damaging America’s political interests. These apologists contend that one must fight fire with fire. I would point out to the apologists that the fire department finds water more effective.
10. The author of the passage above bases his conclusion on which of the following?
(A) A circular definition of “disinformation”
(B) An example of the ineffectiveness of lying as a weapon in the propaganda war
(C) An analogy between truth and water
(D) An appeal to the authority of the fire department
(E) An attack on the character of American intelligence agents in Western Europe

4. Which of the following, if true, would most strengthen the argument above?
(A) New resource deposits are constantly being discovered.
(B) The United States consumes one-third of all resources used in the world.
(C) Other countries need economic development more than the United States does.
(D) Other countries have agreed to hold their resource consumption at present levels.
(E) The United States has been conserving resources for several years.


5. Alba: I don’t intend to vote for Senator Frank in the next election. She is not a strong supporter of the war against crime.
Tam: But Senator Frank sponsored the latest anticrime law passed by the Senate.
Alba: If Senator Frank sponsored it, it can’t be a very strong anticrime law.
Which of the following identifies the most serious logical flaw in Alba’s reasoning?
(A) The facts she presents do not support her conclusion that Senator Frank is soft on crime.
(B) She assumes without proof that crime is the most important issue in the upcoming election.
(C) She argues in a circle, using an unsupported assertion to dismiss conflicting evidence.
(D) She attacks Senator Frank on personal grounds rather than on he merit as a political leader.
(E) In deciding not to vote for Senator Frank, she fails to consider issues other than crime.

6. At an enormous research cost, a leading chemical company has developed a manufacturing process for converting wood fibers into a plastic. According to the company, this new plastic can be used for, among other things, the hulls of small sailboats. But what does the company think sailboat hulls used to be made of? Surely the mania for high technology can scarcely go further than this.
18. The author’s opinion of the manufacturing process described in the passage is based primarily on the fact that
(A) plastic is unlikely to be durable enough for high-quality sailboat hulls
(B) the research costs of developing the process outweigh any savings possible from the use of the plastic
(C) a small sailboat is not normally regarded as a high-tech product
(D) hulls for small sailboats can be made from wood without converting it into plastic
(E) many other spheres of human activity are in far greater need of technological research

Pls post explanations with your replies.

~Cheers

1.the point made is that the ****... made some own punctuation marks without the intentions of making any facts with those marks.but those marks in the present situation refers that he is making a statement or fact.hence b
2.Though nt very sure of solving these deductive reasoning.but here is my explanation-I thought of a as a circle and B is inside that and c is inside B abd D is inside c.so from this only last option can be deduced.hence-E
3.The author purpose is to said that the fir ecant be used to extinguish fire , like wise , the disinformation can also not be used to counter disinformation,hence -b
4.dont know frm where it came?
5.here the reasoning given is the crime will not be serious , this assertion is w/o any proofs.hence-C
6.Here the first three options are irreleveant to the question asked.the fourth option simply describes the product usefullness(or non usefullness).so based on the elimination answer is E.
regards

vikas

[ashishkd]

Try this:



More sports journals are sold in Hornby than in Milston. Therefore, the residents of Hornby are better informed about major sporting events than are the residents of Milston.

Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusion above EXCEPT:

A. Hornby has a larger population than Milston.

B. Most residents of Milston work in Hornby and buy their reading material there.

C. The average newsstand price of journals sold in Hornby is lower than the average price of journals sold in Milston.

D. A monthly journal restricted to the coverage of local events is published in Hornby.

E. The average resident of Hornby spends less time reading sports journals than does the average resident of Milston.


I thought of a answer as B but its not B.Please somebody explain me thye answer.

[SUPERNUT]

Originally Posted by ashishkd

Try this:



More sports journals are sold in Hornby than in Milston. Therefore, the residents of Hornby are better informed about major sporting events than are the residents of Milston.

Each of the following, if true, weakens the conclusion above EXCEPT:

A. Hornby has a larger population than Milston.

B. Most residents of Milston work in Hornby and buy their reading material there.

C. The average newsstand price of journals sold in Hornby is lower than the average price of journals sold in Milston.

D. A monthly journal restricted to the coverage of local events is published in Hornby.

E. The average resident of Hornby spends less time reading sports journals than does the average resident of Milston.


I thought of a answer as B but its not B.Please somebody explain me thye answer.

I think answer is Option E, Since the average resident spends less time reading....