David nguyen wrote:
robu1 wrote:
ctkrishnan wrote:
My choice is C.
More standardized a household’s diet indicates two things..
1. More cans and prepackaged food used ---> Less food discarded
2. More cans and prepackaged food used ---> More fresh produce thrown away
Here "More cans and prepackaged food used" indicates the standardized diet...
Option C is the negation of the point number 2 above... So this fits in..
based on conditional reasoning , how we can arrive at OPtion C? If A then B is not equal to not A is not B ( mistaken negation). therefore i did not consider C please explain.
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Hi,
All we need is to focus on is what we are comparing .
our argument says -
1. The more standardised = More cans and prepackaged food used ---> Less food discarded
2. More cans and prepackaged food used ---> More
fresh produce thrown away .
For infrence questions of this kind of mixed up data / info / comparison you can use quants approach .
For eg If I tell you a class has only boys and girls . 20% are boys .
So you can easily tell rest 80% are girls (even when its not stated ).
Here we can safely categorise the types of households into
1)more standardised . This category wastes more of Fresh food
2)opp - Less standardised . This category waste less fresh food .
Lets categorise them - If I eat only canned food then I will throw MORE fresh produce .
Based on this we can confidently say If I don't eat canned food (may be eat FRESH PRODUCE )I WILL THROW LESS FRESH PRODUCE (obviously I am going to eat the fresh produce so why would I throw all of it ) . So this leads to ---> I will be having less canned food = less standardised food.
(C) The less standardized a household’s diet is, the smaller is the proportion of fresh produce in the household’s food waste.
the canned are a distraction. here the correlation is: less standardized -----> less waste in proportion of fresh food.
more standardised -----> more waste in proportion of fresh food.
I hope this cleared/helped . GMAT often tries to puzzle us but when we really understand what we are looking for we will end up picking right ans either by POE or simply by knowing what should be right .