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Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit growers since the early
1960’s, a regulation in force since 1960 has prohibited sale of fruit on which any TDX
residue can be detected. That regulation is about to be replaced by one that allows sale of fruit on which trace amounts of TDX residue are detected. In fact, however, the change will not allow more TDX on fruit than was allowed in the 1960’s, because ______.
A. pre-1970 techniques for detecting TDX residue could detect it only when it was
present on fruit in more than the trace amounts allowed by the new regulations
B. many more people today than in the 1960’s habitually purchase and eat fruit
without making an effort to clean residues off the fruit
C. people today do not individually consume any more pieces of fruit, on average,
than did the people in the 1960’s
D. at least a small fraction of the fruit sold each year since the early 1960’s has had
on it greater levels of TDX than the regulation allows
E. the presence of TDX on fruit in greater than trace amounts has not been shown to
cause any harm even to children who eat large amounts of fruit
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Option A seems the only plausible choice here.
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A for me. It explains the fact why the content of TDX would not increase.
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I pick A,
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A Regulation is relaxed now but still the change will not allow more TDX on fruit than was allowed in the 1960’s ==> reason the detecting technique is better now
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Straight A for me. Looks like POE method would suffice for this question.
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
26 Nov 2011, 04:19
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
26 Nov 2011, 09:06
Clearly A
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
08 Jan 2012, 22:43
A as detecting techniques will fail if the TDX amount is varied from the earlier amounts.
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
09 Jan 2012, 09:47
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
09 Jan 2012, 20:49
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
09 Jan 2012, 22:24
+1 for A
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
10 Jan 2012, 01:30
+1 for A. OA ?
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Re: Although the pesticide TDX has been widely used by fruit [#permalink]
23 Mar 2012, 09:48
The answer I have chosen is A for this question:
From the word "because" that directly precedes the blank, you automatically know that this is an assumption question.
The conclusion is : [highlight]The change in regulation will not allow more TDX on fruit than was allowed in the 1960s[/highlight]
A. This answer choice makes perfect sense because one of explanations for TDX levels being the same for both regulations is that the technique or maybe technology was worse in 1960. This technique or technology in the 1960s may not have been able to detect very low levels of TDX, but the new technology can do that. Therefore, this answer fits and is the answer.
B. This answer choice does not explain why the TDX levels are similar.
C. This answer choice is irrelevant - we do not care about how much fruit people ate.
D. This answer choice seems to directly contradict one of the premises in the argument. If this is the case, this would in fact weaken the argument and not be an assumption.
E. We are not concerned about whether TDX causes harm or not. We are only concerned with why the levels of TDX are similar.
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